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

George MacDonald Fraser
£6.99

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
£6.99

The fourth instalment in the Flashman Papers series.

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

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Flashman in the Great Game

George MacDonald Fraser
£6.99

More adventurous stories from Flashman, this time fleeing across the Indian scene in 1857. Is he one of the unsuspected factors in the cause of the Mutiny?

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

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Flashman's Lady

George MacDonald Fraser
£6.99

The sixth novel in the Flashman Papers series. Flashman decides to take up cricket with his old enemy Tom Brown, little knowing that he was letting himself in for the most desperate game of his scandalous career

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

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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.

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Georgy Girl

Margaret Forster
£7.99

An unconventional love story about a young, gregarious, fun and self-confessedly fat and ugly girl who suddenly finds herself the object of two very different mens affection, and her struggle through a maze of conflicting demands and emotions.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1978
Format : Paperback.

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Good Wives? Mary, Fanny, Jennie and me, 1845 - 2001

Margaret Forster
£7.99

The bestselling author of Hidden Lives explores four marriages, including her own, in different times and societies to find the answer. Why does a woman still want to be a wife today? What is the value of marriage today? Why do couples still marry in church?

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

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Good Wives?: Mary, Fanny, Jennie and me, 1845 - 2001

Margaret Forster
£17.99

The bestselling author of Hidden Lives explores four marriages, including her own, in different times and societies to find the answer. Why does a woman still want to be a wife in the twenty-first century? What is the value of marriage today?

Published by : Chatto & Windus
Published date : 2001
Format : Hardback.

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Guide to the Lakes

William Wordsworth; Ernest de Selincourt (ed)
£7.99

Wordsworth lived in the Lake District nearly all his life. In 1810 he wrote his Guide to the Lakes, a first hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration.

Published by : Frances Lincoln
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback.

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Have The Men Had Enough?

Margaret Forster
£7.50

A powerful novel showing the guilt, anger and compassion felt by families about their aged relatives. Compulsive reading and very moving.

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

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Hidden Lives

Margaret Forster
£7.99

A memoir of the Carlisle authors mother and grandmother which reflects the changes in womens lives across three generations.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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Hurry, Hurry, While Stocks Last

Hunter Davies
£7.95

Reduced to £5.00, a sideways look at the economic, social and shopping history of Cumbria as seen through local advertisements 1850-1940. Hunter Davies traces the changes in Cumbrian life, in attitudes and activities, trends and fashions. He observes the social and

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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Josh Lawton

Melvyn Bragg
£7.99

A portrait of the friendships and antagonisms in rural Cumberland, set in a local village.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 1992
Format : Paperback.

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Lady's Maid

Margaret Forster
£7.99

Set in 1844, this is a novel based on the true story of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth Wilson - the ladys maid.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1991
Format : Paperback.

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Lines

William Wordsworth; N. & F. McDowall (eds)
£85.00

Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour: July 13th, 1798.

Published by : Old Stile Press
Published date : 2002
Format : Leather binding.

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Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth & Coleridge

R.L. Brett (ed); A.R. Jones (ed)
£9.99

This is the second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together with a new introduction by Nicholas Roe. It contains the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Romantic movement.

Published by : Routledge
Published date : Reprinted 2005
Format : Paperback.

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Mother Can You Hear Me?

Margaret Forster
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A poignant and honest tale of a woman who is determined to have a better relationship with her daughter than she did with her own mother.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1981
Format : Paperback.

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Mother's Boys

Margaret Forster
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A novel focusing on teenage violence and the effect it has on families, in particular the mothers - one of a victim, one of an attacker.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1995
Format : Paperback.

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Mr American

George MacDonald Fraser
£9.99

An epic historical adventure featuring General Flashman, who meets Mark Franklin in 1909 - just another American?- and gets more than he bargained for.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA

Melvyn Bragg
£7.99

A fascinating account of the lives and discoveries of 12 great scientific figures.

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

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Precious Lives

Margaret Forster
£10.00

Reduced from £17.99,an intimate, personal and brutally honest memoir of the lives and deaths of two people; the author's sister-in-law, who fought bravely against terminal cancer, and the author's father, who lived to his mid-nineties.

Published by : Chatto & Windus
Published date : 1998
Format : Hardback.

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Precious Lives

Margaret Forster
£7.99

A follow-on to Hidden Lives. (a family memoir of three generations of women).

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

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Private Papers

Margaret Forster
£7.99

Family was, to Penelope Butler, the most important thing in life, but three of her four daughters had different ideas. Only one chose to pursue her mothers ideal, with disastrous results.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1987
Format : Paperback.

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Provincial Pleasures

Norman Nicholson
£7.00

Reduced from £14.95, an affectionate tribute to the sturdy tradition of the Millom area, arranged by months of the year.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 1993
Format : Hardback.

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Reiver Blues: A New Border Apocalypse

John Murray
£8.99

Set in the Debatable Lands of the English-Scottish border, it is about sex, ghosts, the millenium, international politics, national borders, ethnicity, oriental erotics manuals, oriental cooking and, for the first time in serious fiction, the aubergine.

Published by : Flambard
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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