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	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:

	Confessions of a Collector Hunter Davies £0.00 Collecting things is the world's biggest hobby: there are very few people who do not collect something, consciously or otherwise. Published by : Quercus Published date : October 2009 Format : 194mm x 252mm hardback 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:

	Cumbrian Parishes 1714 - 1725 from Bishop Gastrell's Notitia Dr Lawrence A.S. Butler £20.00 This volume contains the material collected by the Bishop of Chester about the Cumbrian parishes within his diocese. His notitia (notebook) is a mine of information about parishes, townships, schools and charities. A full list of clergy is included. Published by : CWAAS Published date : 1998 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Daisy's Diary: A Honeymoon Journey to the Far East Octavia Salkeld £8.95 A story in journal form of Daisys honeymoon and correspondence between her sister and herself during that time. Published by : Titus Wilson Published date : 1993 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Daphne du Maurier Margaret Forster £9.99 An award-winning study of the internationally acclaimed author. Published by : Arrow Published date : 1994 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Dark Shadows Falling Joe Simpson £7.99 In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die alone high on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from the security of their tent thirty yards away. In this exciting and challenging book, Simpson explores Published by : Vintage Published date : 1997 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Dear Daughter: The Messenger Letters Graham Hindle (ed) £15.00 This true story tells the story of Thomas Messenger, one of the last sailing ship captains, through letters which he wrote to his daughter during the years 1890 to 1898.An epic saga with poignant human dimensions. Published by : John Gray Books Published date : 1998 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Dear Mr Salvin: The Story of the Building of a 19th Century Ulverston Church John Marsh (ed) £9.99 This book gives a picture of the building of a 19th century Commissioners Church and the many problems encountered. Published by : Helm Press Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Discovering Swallows & Ransomes John Berry £8.95 Inspired by Arthur Ransomes classic Swallows and Amazons series, John Berry successfully recounts that familiar sense of real adventure experienced by Ransomes well-known characters. He describes how the books became his inspiration, and how he went in search of his hero, finally locating him after cycling 26 miles around the Lakeland fells. Published by : Sigma Leisure Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich £11.99 Imported from America, this book connects the accidents of Wordsworths life with the originality of his writing, showing how the poets strong sympathy with the political idealism of the age and with the lives of the outcast and the dispossessed formed Published by : University of Chicago Press Published date : 2000 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Dora Wordsworth : A Poet's Daughter Olena Beal £12.99 Dora Wordsworth's life is revealed in letters and journals written by her immediate family and friends - she is perceived with their intellect and spirit and is described impeccably in their own words. Published by : Mayoh Press Published date : December 2009 Format : 145mm x 205mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Dynamiting Niagara Ian Davidson £11.00 These are stories of a boy never quite coming of age in a small Lakeland hamlet in the years following WW11. Published by : Handstand Press Published date : 2005 Format : 138mm x 215mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning Margaret Forster £8.99 Introducing the reader to a strong and determined woman, an invalid who escaped her tyrannical father and eloped to Italy at the age of 40. Once again a much acclaimed biography by Margaret Forster. Published by : Vintage Published date : 1998 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Fighter! Fighter! - The story of Edward Callander DFM, Croix de Guerre John Brenan and Richard Frost £7.50 Ned Callander came out of the rough and tumble of a large working class family from Dumfries. His father was shell-shocked from the First World War, his mother was taken into the 'Asylum For The Insane' when he was only one year old. Published by : John Brenan and Richard Frost Published date : 2008 Format : 150mm x 210mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Fishing With Father Bruce I. Cawthra £12.99 Bruce Cawthra's father started fishing when he was aged just ten. It would be a passion that would influence his life for the next seventy years. When he died one month before his 80th birthday, he left one ambition unfulfilled - to catch a salmon on a Scottish loch. Published by : Melrose Books Published date : 2006 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	From Carlisle and Old Cumberland Laurie Kemp £10.00 Laurie Kemp tells the stories of seventeen men and one woman who came from Carlisle and Old Cumberland. They are: George Moore, John Losh, Jonathan Boucher, the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Bouch, Janet Woodrow, Martin Tallents, Henry Scott Sawyer, William George Armstrong, John Robertson Scott, Arthur C. Astor, Robert Anderson, John Heysham, Josiah Relph, Joseph Simpson, James Wallace, John Taylor and Robert Bowman. Published by : Bookcase Published date : November 2008 Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	From Cotton Mills to Lakeland Hills Keith Holland £11.95 One of 12 children, Keith tells a story of how his 'townie' life in Manchester changed when the family got their little holiday cottage in the Lake District in the early 1930s. He tells of these early years spent enjoying country life and escaping for weekends and school holidays. Published by : Helm Press Published date : 2005 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	From Great Broughton to Great Britain: Peter Gorley - Rugby League Forward Peter Cropper £9.95 Peter Gorley was one of the outstanding second-row forwards of his generation. He is also one of the best Cumbrian rugby league players of the last 30 years. Based on interviews and extensive research, the book also has memories of his career from collegues at Workington Town and St Helens. Published by : London League Publications Ltd. Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	From the Fells to Ferrari Graham Gauld £22.50 This book is the biography of Cliff Allison who started motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Published by : Veloce Published date : May 2008 Format : 215mm x 258mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Full English - Or How to Run a Bed & Breakfast and Keep Your Sense of Humour Edward Millar £7.99 Edward Miller has been running a successful B&B enterprise in a peaceful part of the Lake District for over 25 years. Published by : Merlin Unwin Books Published date : September 2009 Format : 136mm x 216mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Gazza: My Story Paul Gascoigne with Hunter Davies £6.99 Gazza. Flawed genius. Remembered as much for his off-the-field antics as for his sublime footballing skills. A life full of dramatic highs and lows, darkness and light; the unforgettable goals matched by moments of madness. This is his story, in his own words. Published by : Headline Book Publishing Published date : 2005 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	George Stephenson: The Remarkable Life of the Founder of the Railways Hunter Davies £8.99 Over 170 years ago, the worlds first passenger railway - the Liverpool to Manchester - was opened. George Stephenson was the man responsible for this great feat of engineering. Published by : Sutton Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Glory Boy! Martin Daley £4.99 Reduced from £7.99, the story of the author's great great grandfather Isaac Scott. Published by : Martin Daley Published date : 2000 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity: