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With Christmas approaching rapidly, Bridgevaria.com checked the book market for interesting new releases. Here's a short list. Order through one of our bookstores in the bar above!
In order to find these titles, use the search box on the right side of the shop.  | Logical Bridge play by Hugh Kelsey As Hugh Kelsey says in his introduction, the brilliant card player achieves his results with a combination of logic and flair. And although many people may think flair plays a disproportionate part, the expert player, in fact, produces his sometimes unbelievable results almost entirely by the application of logic. LOGICAL BRIDGE PLAY teaches you just how to apply logic to your card play in making the correct inferences and deductions, and in assessing the timing - the opportunity to become a master player is yours for the taking. |  | Doubled and venerable by Terence Reese and David Bird DOUBLED AND VENERABLE is the third title in Terence Reese's and David Bird's collection of stories about the bridge-playing monks of St Titus whose exploits delight readers the world over. The huge success of these books lies not only in their being extremely funny but also in their being instructional as they are crammed with gems of bridge bidding and play. 'DOUBLED AND VENERABLE is a splendid buy to cheer these politically-saturated days. It is entertainment of the highest quality.' OXFORD TIMES | 
| Breaking the Bridge Rules by Barry Rigal
Rules are made to be broken, and the world of bridge is no exception. This is the first of a planned four-book series on cardplay. It deals with situations where the player who is on lead - defender or declarer, at the start of the deal or in the middle - needs to do something that involves ostensibly 'breaking the rules'. Not, obviously, the rules of bridge itself, but the well-tried adages that every player needs to be taught - the rules of thumbA" that work in a lot of cases. Knowing when to break those rules is one of the marks of an expert player. |  | Bridge at the Enigma Club by Peter Winkler Robert Tischman is just looking for a game of bridge, but when a mysterious woman persuades him to partner her in a two-session event at the Engima Club, he gets much more than that. This is a book that can be enjoyed on several levels: 1) as a fun read with lots of great bridge deals. 2) as a glimpse of what the game might be like if technology were applied to it with more imagination. 3) as an exposition of the author's ideas on encrypted bidding and encrypted signals - bids and plays where, in full compliance with the Laws of Bridge, partners can exchange information that cannot be deciphered by their opponents. Consumer warning: these methods, though fascinating and ingenious, are illegal in many bridge jurisdictions. |  | Secrets Your Bridge Friends Won't Tell You by Cathy Hunsberger Secrets Your Bridge Friends Never Tell You explores the bumpy, and exciting, journey a bridge player takes on the road from beginner, to intermediate, to the unlimited glory that awaits somewhere down the line. Undoubtedly, you will recognize part of your own journey. You will discover you were never alone as you suffered the constant ups and downs that proliferate in pursuit of this great game. |
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 The famous Bennett murder is now the subject of a novel by Gary M. Pomerantz. This non-fiction book is about the Roaring 20's, Murder, and the Contract Bridge Craze.
THE DEVILS TICKETS evokes the last echoes of the Roaring 20s and the darkness of the Depression when a tuxedoed Russian became the Barnum of the bridge craze that fueled marital uproar across the nation, including a husband-killing and sensational trial in Boss Pendergasts Kansas City.
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