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	Observations on Cumberland and Westmoreland (1786) William Gilpin £75.00 Published by : Woodstock Books Published date : 1996 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Please allow 10 days for delivery

	Odd Corners around the Howgills Gareth Hayes £15.00 Odd Corners around the Howgills is a tour of the hidden charms and lost landmarks of this most beautiful and unspoilt area of Northern England. Published by : Hayloft Published date : 2004 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Otters and Martens Colin Simms £9.95 A collection of naturalist poetry. Published by : Shearsman Books Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Poetry in the Parks Wendy Bardsley (ed) £9.95 A celebration of the National Parks of England and Wales in poems and photographs, including the works of William Wordsworth, U.A. Fanthorpe, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, amongst others. Published by : Sigma Leisure Published date : 2000 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Poetry of Lakeland: A Colour Souvenir in Verse Ronald Sands (ed) £3.99 This will delight all those who like to combine reading with travel. Published by : Frank Peters Publishing Published date : 1991 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Praeterita John Ruskin £10.99 Published by : Everyman Published date : 2005 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Read's Point of View Mary E. Burkett; David Sloss £19.95 A biography of Mathias Read (1669-1747), once called the father of Cumbrian painting, and the only notable pre-picturesque painter of the Lake District. Published by : Skiddaw Press Published date : 1995 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Royal Flash George MacDonald Fraser £6.99 The second volume of the Flashman Papers series. Flashman matches his wits, his talents for malice and deceit and his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most unscrupulous adventuress of the era. Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge £2.00 A selection of poetry edited by John Beer. With a chronology of Coleridges time and 35 poems. Published by : Everyman Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Selection of his Finest Poems H.J. Jackson (ed) £5.99 A selection of works from throughout the often tortured poets life, with a note on the text and a chronology of his life. Published by : Oxford Published date : 1994 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems Richard Holmes (ed) £4.99 A selection of the poets work which rediscovers him as a Romantic Autobiographer with examples of the little known love poems to Asra, the robust Hill Walking Poems and the secret agony of the Confessional Poems. Published by : Penguin Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poetry Richard Holmes (ed) £6.99 Coleridge was the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. This collection shows him experimenting with a range of verse forms, from the sonnet and ballad to the beautifully crafted sequencee of Conversation poems, and encompassing subjects as diverse as Published by : Penguin Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Selected Poetry William Wordsworth £1.25 A collection of poems which celebrates the beauty of nature with Wordsworths expected eloquence and intensity. Published by : Penguin Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Sesame and Lilies John Ruskin £5.99 A facsimile edition to mark the centenary of the death of John Ruskin. His most popular work. Published by : Hendon Publishing Published date : 2000 Format : Small paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Sheikh and the Dustbin and other McAuslan Stories George MacDonald Fraser £5.99 A collection of stories following the disastrous career of Private McAuslan as he travels across North Africa and Scotland. Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 1989 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Sketch of Cumberland Manners and Customs Francis Jollie £4.00 Partly in the provincial dialect, in prose and verse, and with a glossary. A facsimile reprint of the 1811 edition. Published by : Michael Moon Published date : 1974 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Tales of Old Cumbria William Amos £6.95 This is an illustrated collection of stories and legends from Cumbria's past, vividly brought to life by Ambleside author, William Amos. Published by : Countryside Books Published date : February 2008 Format : 215mm x 138mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Battle For Christabel Margaret Forster £7.99 A heart-rending tale of the legal and emotional battle for an orphaned child. Published by : Penguin Published date : 1992 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity: