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A Choice of Coleridge's Verse

Ted Hughes (ed)
£7.99

With a vigorously argued introductory essay, Ted Hughes has selected a number of Coleridges greatest poems and verses in a daring and radical attempt to get to the heart of his spiritual and poetic concerns.

Published by : Faber & Faber
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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A Clubbable Woman

Reginald Hill
£6.99

The first ever Dalziel and Pascoe novel from the Cumbrian-born author.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1998
Format : Paperback.

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A Description of the Lakes 1822

William Wordsworth
£18.00



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

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A Lazy Tour in Cumberland

Stephen Matthews
£12.00

Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins spent six days in Cumberland in September, 1857. They visited Carlisle, Hesket Newmarket, Wigton, Maryport and Allonby and returned to the Citadel Station in Carlisle.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : February 2013
Format : Paperback; 210 x 148mm.

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A Place in England

Melvyn Bragg
£6.99

Joseph Tallentire has hope and ambition - like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life is not easy for an uneducated young man in Cumberland before and during World War II.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 1975
Format : Paperback.

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A Second Life

William Scammell
£6.95

Another early collection of Scammells, including poems such as Monday Monday, The Vet, Time Past, Christmas at Bristol, Our Man at the Bar, Wishbone, Marriage Song, and Ice for the Lips.

Published by : Peterloo Poets
Published date : 1982
Format : Paperback.

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A Softer Landscape - Life & Work of Jenny Cowern

Valery Rickerby & Mary Burkett
£12.50

Jenny Cowern once described herself as 'a painter in thought, training and discipline'. Well, this little book is intended to pay tribute to an artist who was too selfless to promote her own work; to reproduce as much as possible in her various media and to try to do justice in a small way to the quality and delights of her oeuvres, in order to share it with as many people as possible.

Published by : Skiddaw Press
Published date : March 2007
Format : 176mm x 244mm

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A Son of War

Melvyn Bragg
£8.99

A formidable successor to his widely praised and award-winning novel, The Soldiers Return. We enter again into the lives of Sam and Ellen, trying to make a better life for themselves, and between them their young son Joe who is striving to fulfil their

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback

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A Time to Dance

Melvyn Bragg
£7.99

Set in Cumbria, the intensely passionate relationship between a retired bank manager and a young girl, and the destructive kernel of jealousy.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 1990
Format : Paperback.

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Arthur Ransome Under Sail

Roger Wardale
£9.99

Arthur Ransome, author of Swallows and Amazons, kept detailed logs of all his voyaging, and it is from these and countless letters to friends, as well as a wealth of anecdotes, that Roger Wardale pieced together this revealing, funny and moving portrait of the lovable and intrepid old sea-dog, Captain Flint — alias Arthur Ransome himself.

Published by : Sigma Leisure
Published date : April 2010
Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback

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Beatrix Potter - Her Art and Inspiration


£4.50

A National Trust guidebook covering history, horticulture, garden history, history of art, architecture, social history, natural environment and conservation.

Published by : National Trust
Published date : 2004
Format : 210mm x 210mm stitched paperback

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Beatrix Potter and Hill Top


£4.50

A National Trust guidebook covering history, horticulture, garden history, history of art, architecture, social history, natural environment and conservation.


Published by : National Trust
Published date : 1989
Format : 210mm x 210mm stitched paperback

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Beatrix Potter's Scotland

Lynne McGeachie
£12.99

Beatrix Potter's Scotland gives insight into the life of one of the best-loved writers in Britain.

Published by : Luath
Published date : October 2010
Format : 174mm x 204mm paperback

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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.

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Born 1900
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Daphne du Maurier

Margaret Forster
£9.99

An award-winning study of the internationally acclaimed author.

Published by : Arrow
Published date : 1994
Format : Paperback.

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Diary of an Ordinary Woman

Margaret Forster
£7.99

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles.

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

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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.

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Flash For Freedom!

George MacDonald Fraser
£6.99

Volume three of the Flashman Papers series.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Flashman

George MacDonald Fraser
£5.99

The first volume of the ever popular Flashman novels, from 1839-1842.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1993
Format : Paperback.

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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

George MacDonald Fraser
£7.99

The tenth instalment in the Flashman Papers series.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Flashman and the Dragon

George MacDonald Fraser
£7.99

The eighth instalment in the Flashman Papers series.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Flashman and the Mountain of Light

George MacDonald Fraser
£6.99

The ninth instalment in the Flashman Papers series.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Flashman and the Redskins

George MacDonald Fraser
£7.99

The seventh novel in the Flashman Papers series. The legendary and authentic West of Mangas Colorado and Kit Carson, of Crazy Horse and the Deadwood stage, gunfighters and gamblers, eccentrics, scoundrels and mysterious adventuresses.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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Flashman and the Tiger: And Other Extracts from The Flashman Papers

George MacDonald Fraser
£7.99

Forthcoming 16th October 2000. A new instalment of the Flashman Papers.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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Flashman at the Charge

George MacDonald Fraser
£7.99

The fourth instalment in the Flashman Papers series.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1999
Format : Paperback.

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