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	Beatrix Potter's Farming Friendship: Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop 1926 - 1943 Judy Taylor (ed) £8.50 A collection of correspondence sent from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop. Published by : Beatrix Potter Society Published date : 1998 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Beatrix Potter's Journal Glen Cavaliero £20.00 Between the ages of 15 and 30, Beatrix kept a diary written in code. When the code was finally cracked, it revealed a picture of upper-middle-class life in Victorian Britain, written with liveliness and humour. This is that diary. Published by : Frederick Warne Published date : 1986 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Beatrix Potter's Lakeland Paintings DVD £17.99 Enjoy this wonderful collection of Beatrix Potter's landscape paintings and sketches used as backgrounds for the famous book illustrations. Published by : Burlington Productions Published date : November 2006 Format : DVD Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Beatrix Potter's Tale Elizabeth Battrick £5.99 A very readable historical novel which also paints a life-like portrait of Beatrix Potter. Published by : Ellenbank Press Published date : 1993 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Beatrix Potter: A Holiday Diary Judy Taylor £6.00 Beatrix Potters 1905 diary, which was written when she was on holiday with her parents and brother. Published by : Beatrix Potter Society Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator Anne Stevenson Hobbs £20.00 The Tale of Beatrix Potter is universally known, but apart from a few of the fungus paintings, her original works were neither reproduced nor exhibited in her lifetime. This volume offers a broad survey of Potter's art in all its variety: early sketches, unfinished and variant designs, and finished watercolours, including some less familiar material never before on public display. Published by : Frederick Warne Published date : 2005 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman Judy Taylor £14.99 A new edition, containing new material and previously unpublished photographs. Published by : Frederick Warne Published date : 1996 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Behind Chained Gates Moira Linaker £10.00 The Foot and Mouth epidemic of 2001 has affected many people in many ways. Moira bought a smallholding, but F&M hit soon afterwards. This is the moving, inspirational story of how she battled against the system and saved her sheep. Published by : Hayloft Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Bill Hogarth MBE Coppice Merchant: A Life in the Woodlands of the Lake District Alan Shepley (ed) £6.50 Bill Hogarth worked as a coppice merchant in south Cumbria for 56 years. He learned his trade with his father from the age of 14 and was still hard at work in the woods when he died in 1999. This book is his story of those years. Published by : Wood Education Programme Trust Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Biographical List of Clockmakers Susan E. Stuart £15.95 A list of the clockmakers of North Lancashire and South Westmorland from 1680 to 1900. Published by : University of Lancaster Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Blackboards Whiteboards Chessboards! The History of Scotby Village School Ian W. Mackay £9.95 An affectionate and detailed history of the school in Scotby village near Carlisle, written by the headteacher and covering the history of the building itself, to past headteachers, staff and pupils, the war years and much more. Published by : Ian Mackay Published date : 2004 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Bluebird and the Dead Lake John Pearson £9.99 The classic account of how Donald Campbell broke the World Land Speed Record in 1964. In Australias remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of Lake Eyre, he set out to drive his Bluebird car at over 400 miles an hour - faster than any man in history. Published by : Aurum Press Published date : 2002 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Born 1900 Hunter Davies £7.99 A view of the twentieth century through various people and institutions which have featured in the last 100 years. Published by : Warner Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Breaking Away: Coleridge in Scotland Carol Kyros Walker (ed) £19.95 Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803. This volume draws on Coleridges letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths and to record and photograph the journey Published by : Yale University Press Published date : 2002 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Please allow 10 days for delivery

	Carlisle's Crane Makers: The Cowans Sheldon Story Alan Earnshaw £9.95 Cowans Sheldon was one of the most important railway and marine engineering firms in the world. Professor Earnshaw records the companys birth, growth and consolidation, followed by its takeover, demise and recent regeneration. Published by : Nostalgia Road Published date : 2004 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Changing the Face of Carlisle: The Life and Times of Percy Dalton City Engineer and Surveyor Marie K. Dickens £9.99 A compelling insight into the life of a unique man, who quite literally changed Carlisle for ever. He was put in charge of the citys housing programme in 1919, he designed five bridges carrying traffic into Carlisle, he erected the Turkish Baths Published by : Hayloft Published date : 2002 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Chris Bonington's Everest Chris Bonington £20.00 Everest, the worlds highest mountain peak, has a compulsive attraction that has lured many climbers over the years. One such was Cumbrian Bonington, Britains best known climber. He has made four expeditions to its faces. Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Published date : 2002 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Chris Bonnington - Mountaineer : 30 Years of Climbing on the World's Great Peaks Chris Bonington £16.99 A beautifully illustrated photographic autobiography with essays and extended captions that tell the story of Boningtons 30-year long mountaineering career. Published by : Baton Wicks Publications Published date : 1996 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Christopher Steele 1733-1767 of Acre Walls, Egremont: George Romney's Teacher Mary E. Burkett £9.50 This book attempts to throw a little more light on Steele with the aid of recently-discovered paintings, either signed by him or attributed to him with reasonable certainty. Published by : Skiddaw Press Published date : 2003 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Coleridge and Wordsworth: The Crucible of Friendship Tom Mayberry £9.99 The account of an extraordinary friendship between the two poets in 1797 which gave rise to such poems as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and culminated in Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems which marked the beginning of English Romanticism. Published by : Sutton Published date : 2000 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Coleridge and Wordsworth: Travels in the West Country Tom Mayberry £9.99 Published by : Sutton Publishing Published date : 2000 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Coleridge: Darker Reflections Richard Holmes £9.99 Companion volume to Early Visions. Published by : Flamingo Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Coleridge: Early Visions Richard Holmes £9.99 A vivid, sympathetic and beautifully written study of the great poet. Published by : Flamingo Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Cottage and Farmhouse Detail in Beatrix Potter's Lake District Audrey Parker £2.50 A study of the characters and domestic detail in the work of Beatrix Potter. Published by : Beatrix Potter Society Published date : 1993 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Cumbria to Kwai T. Stewart £10.00 An autobiography of Skymaster Tom Stewart, who recently passed away. An honest and at times disturbing account of life fighting in the Second World War. Published by : National Ex-Services News Published date : 2000 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity: