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Books Cumbria : People : Biography

Biography

Cumbrian Biography and Autobiography <<prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | next>>
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Stan Bowles - The Autobiography

Stan Bowles
£8.99

'I think that Frank Worthington summed my life up quite well when he said, "Stan has spent all of his money on gambling, booze and birds."

Published by : Orion
Published date : December 2007
Format : 130mm x 198mm paperback

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Stanley Webb Davies 1894-1978

Hugh Wright
£10.00

Stanley Webb Davies of Windermere is now recognised as one of the foremost designers and makers of furniture in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : November 2006
Format : 210mm x 150mm small paperback

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Storms of Silence

Joe Simpson
£7.99

By the author of Touching the Void comes another classic tale of endurance.

Published by : Vintage
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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Strong Lad Wanted For Strong Lass: Growing Up In Carlisle

Hunter Davies
£8.99

Hunter Davies is one of the country's best known writers and journalists, author of over 30 books. This is his fascinating personal story of growing up in Carlisle in the 1950's.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback.

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Sutton and his Circle: The Cockermouth School of Painting 1750-1880

M.E. Burkett
£14.50



Published by : Skiddaw Press
Published date : 2001
Format : Hardback.

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The Armitt Story

Eileen Jay
£11.50

The story of a small private subscription library, founded in 1909.

Published by : Loughrigg Press
Published date : 1998
Format : Large paperback.

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The Autobiography of William Farish: The Struggles of a Hand-Loom Weaver

William Farish
£35.00

Born at Carlisle in 1818, William Farish first started work as bobbin wheel operative at the age of eight, graduating to the loom two years later. His autobiography was privately printed in 1889, adn includes an account of the hardship and poverty of his childhood.

Published by : Caliban Books
Published date : 1996
Format : Hardback.

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The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

Frances Wilson
£9.99

Ordinarily presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer and exceptional woman.


Published by : Faber
Published date : March 2009
Format : 126mm x 195mm paperback

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The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

Frances Wilson
£18.99

Ordinarily presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer and exceptional woman.

Published by : Faber & faber
Published date : March 2008
Format : 136mm x 220mm hardback

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The Baroness of Belsfield by Windermere

Ian Jones
£8.00

This is the story of a remarkable lady, an off-comer of common but respectable birth who, by great fortune, inherited considerable wealth, espoused an aristocratic title, and built as her principle seat one of the finest houses to grace the shores of Windermere.

Published by : Ian Jones
Published date : June 2008
Format : 238mm x 160mm paperback

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The Beatles - 40th Anniversary Edition

Hunter Davies
£9.99

There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it.

Published by : Ebury
Published date : May 2009
Format : 125mm x 198mm paperback

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The Beatles Football and Me

Hunter Davies
£7.99

Hunter Davies is one of the most respected writers in the country. "The Glory Game" is a footballing classic still in print some 30 years since its original publication but Hunter is also a successful novelist and distinguished biographer, whose subjects include The Beatles, Wayne Rooney and Paul Gascoigne.

Published by : Hodder Headline
Published date : June 2007
Format : 130mm x 198mm paperback

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The Beatles, Football and Me

Hunter Davies
£18.99

Hunter Davies has enthralled Beatles and football fans, been an influential journalist, and written ground-breaking books for over forty years. He wrote the only authorised biography of the Beatles and the seminal book about Tottenham Hotspur FC, 'The Glory Game', years before football writing became fashionable. His story starts on a Carlisle council estate in the 1950s and moves on to his early years in Fleet Street at the height and heart of the 1960s - which is when he wrote his first novel, 'Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush' later a cult film.

Published by : Headline Review
Published date : 2006
Format : Small hardback

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The Black Angel

Colin Bardgett
£8.95

A valuable military record providing a fascinating insight into local history. The author has assembled diaries and letters written by men of the Penrith Volunteer Company.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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The Bluebird Years: Donald Campbell and the Pursuit of Speed

Arthur Knowles; Graham Beech
£9.95

Here is the complete story of Donald Campbell's heroic attempts to take the world water-speed record past 300 mph - and how the wreck of his jet-boat Bluebird was recovered from Coniston Water more than 34 years later.

Published by : Sigma Leisure
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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The Boss

John Budden
£6.99

The life and times of horseracing legend Gordon W. Richards, who died in Carlisle in 1998.

Published by : Mainstream Publishing
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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The Choyce Letters: Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce 1916 - 1943

Judy Taylor (ed)
£7.00

Edited by a relative of Louie Choyce, this is a collection of 38 transcripts of letters between the two women.

Published by : Beatrix Potter Society
Published date : 1994
Format : Paperback.

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The Diary of Isaac Fletcher of Underwood, Cumberland 1756 - 1781

Angus J.L. Winchester (ed)
£36.00

The daily record of a Quaker yeoman, lawyer and merchants activities over a quarter of a century.

Published by : CWAAS
Published date : 1994
Format : Large hardback.

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The Eddie Stobart Story

Hunter Davies
£6.99

Twenty five years ago, Edward Stobart had eight lorries and twelve staff. Today, he has one thousand lorries and over two thousand staff. Despite having no marketing or publicity department, the company has an annual turnover of £150 million pounds.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 2002
Format : Paperback.

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The Everest Years

Chris Bonington
£14.99

In The Everest Years, the last volume of his autobiography, Chris chronicles his four expeditions to the worlds highest peak. He tells of his fascination with the highest point on earth and why it meant so much to him to finally stand there himself.

Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published date : 2001
Format : Large paperback.

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The First Man To Walk Hadrian's Wall 1802

William Hutton
£4.95

A journey with the author along the length of the Roman wall, describing the people and places along the way.

Published by : Frank Graham
Published date : 1990
Format : Paperback.

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The Friendship - Wordsworth and Coleridge

Adam Sisman
£10.00

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The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came 'Lyrical Ballads', the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in England. Rarely, if ever, have two such gifted young writers co-operated so closely. Coleridge, who acknowledged Wordsworth as the greatest poet since Milton, was himself a poet of unique talents, and moreover was widely recognised to be the greatest genius of his age. The story of this unique pairing is compelling and often poignant. No previous biographer has considered them together, as Adam Sisman does in this fascinating book. The result offers insights into the rich yet neglected topic of friendship, and the tantalising glimpses of the creative process itself.

Published by : Harper Collins
Published date : Sept 2006
Format : 160mm x 240mm

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The Funny Farm: The Laughter, Tears and Wacky World of One Woman's Farm in Cumbria

Jackie Moffat
£7.99

Jackie Moffat lived on the outskirts of London until 1982, when she and her husband decided to move to a small stockrearing and dairy farm in the Eden Valley.

Published by : Transworld Publishers
Published date : 2004
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The Hasells of Dalemain: A Cumberland Family 1736-1794

Frances Wilkins
£18.95

Williams, Edward, Christopher and John were the four sons of Edward and Julia Hasell of Daleman, near Penrith. The detailed story of this generation of Hasells, from the birth of Williams in 1736 to the death of Edward in 1794, is reconstructed from

Published by : Wyre Forest Press
Published date : 2003
Format : Large hardback.

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The Hidden Wordsworth

Kenneth R. Johnston
£15.00

A thorough biography drawing on many private and personal papers and letters.

Published by : Pimlico
Published date : 2000
Format : Large paperback.

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