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Letters to Children From Beatrix Potter
Judy Taylor (ed)
£16.99
This collection of letters - including the letter which featured Peter Rabbit, starting Ms Potters career as an author - offers an insight into the background to her stories as well as her love of children.
Published by :
Frederick Warne
Published date :
2002
Format :
Large paperback.
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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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Memoirs of a Fellwanderer
A. Wainwright
£12.99
This is the enduring story behind the Pictorial Guides - the love letters to the Lakeland Fells that have made A. Wainwright a hosehold name among walkers - illustrated with Wainwrights distinctive drawings of the mountains he knew and loved.
Published by :
Frances Lincoln
Published date :
2003
Format :
Large paperback.
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Mother's Boys
Margaret Forster
£7.99
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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Observations on Cumberland and Westmoreland (1786)
William Gilpin
£75.00
Published by :
Woodstock Books
Published date :
1996
Format :
Hardback.
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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.
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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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Otters and Martens
Colin Simms
£9.95
A collection of naturalist poetry.
Published by :
Shearsman Books
Published date :
2004
Format :
Paperback.
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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.
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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.
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Praeterita
John Ruskin
£10.99
Published by :
Everyman
Published date :
2005
Format :
Hardback.
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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
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Ruskin
Francis O'Gorman
£5.99
A pocket biography of John Ruskin, one of the greatest Victorian art and society critics. With archive photographs and reproductions of rare documents.
Published by :
Sutton
Published date :
1999
Format :
Paperback.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems
£8.99
Read by many well known personalities, this fascinating book on tape contains poems in their entirety as well as unabridged exerpts.
Published by :
Penguin Audiobooks
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Format :
Cassette.
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