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Books Cumbria : People : Biography

Biography

Cumbrian Biography and Autobiography <<prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | next>>
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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 Beautiful Furniture of the Simpsons of Kendal

Hugh Wright
£12.00

The writing and publication of a comprehensive book on Arthur Simpson and the Simpsons of Kendal is long overdue.

Published by : BOOKCASE
Published date : November 2011
Format : 146mm x 210mm paperback

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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 Collected Tales of a Lakeland Lad

Len Hayton
£20.00

A book for browsers in verse, story and song, with historical snippets nature notes and an internet romance.

Published by : Leonard 7 Jean Hayton
Published date : December 2011
Format : 174mm x 245mm paperback

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

Angus J.L. Winchester (ed)
£18.00

REDUCED BY £18.00............

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
£8.99

The world's greatest haulier -- a rags-to-riches tale of British entrepreneurialsim.

Published by : Harper Collins
Published date : 2002 reprinted 2011
Format : 110mm x 178mm 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 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
Format : Paperback..

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The Hidden Wordsworth

Kenneth R. Johnston
£15.00

Reduced from £30.00, a thorough biography drawing on many private and personal papers and letters.

Published by : W.W. Norton
Published date : 1998
Format : 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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The Journal of a Short Tour to the Lakes in 1822

Ian Broadway
£10.00

When Ian Broadway discovered John May's Journal in an auction it was in a parlous state. But the names Coleridge and Southey leapt out at him.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2007
Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback

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The Last Englishman

Roland Chambers
£9.99

Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation.

Published by : Faber
Published date : May 2010
Format : 126mm x 196mm paperback

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The Last Englishman - The Double Life of Arthur Ransome

Roland Chambers
£20.00

Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation.

Published by : Faber
Published date : August 2009
Format : 158mm x 240mm hardback

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The Legacy: The Huttons of Penrith and Beetham

Barbara C. Lee
£7.50

A story of the search for family history, with the author and her husband investigating the names and places mentioned in their family tree.

Published by : Mrs Barbara Lee
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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The Life of Thomas Hayton Mawson: Landscape Architect 1861-1933

Elizabeth Kissack
£11.99

Thomas Hayton Mawson, born in Scorton near Lancaster in 1861, was destined to become a brilliant pioneer of his generation in both landscape design and town planning and his books on "The Art & Craft of Garden Making", were to influence planners as far apart as America and Greece. It was Windermere that he made his home and the Lake District, therefore, is rich in examples of his early work.

Published by : Stramongate Press
Published date : 2006
Format : Small Paperback

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The Man From Dundee - (The Sequel to Twenty Gold Sovereigns)

Peter Ross
£12.00

£3.00 OFF PUBLISHED PRICE...
Maria has got her shop in Denton Street. Now all she has to do is develop it, but she is not content and wants to open another shop to become as successful as her brothers.

Published by : Peter Ross
Published date : July 2011
Format : 130mm195mm paperback

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