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1314

Adrian Rogan
£10.00

1314 is the second novel about Andreas de Harda, a warrior knight at the time of Robert the Bruce. After the catastrophic defeat of the English at Bannockburn, Harda must protect his people and fight as never before in war, politics and love....

Published by : Hayloft
Published date : October 2007
Format : 146mm x 210mm 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 Division of the Light

Christopher Burns
£16.99

Christopher Burns, local Cumbrian author, begins his story on a quiet city street.

Published by : Quercus
Published date : March 2012
Format : 158mm x 240mm hardback

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A Division of the Light

Christopher Burns
£7.99

It begins on a quiet city street. A woman is robbed, the crime witnessed by a man holding a camera. In the aftermath, victim and voyeur meet. It ends six months later, by which point both their lives - and the way they choose to live them - have changed irrevocably. This is the story of what happened in-between.

Published by : Quercus Fiction
Published date : January 2013
Format : Paperback; 198 x 132mm.

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A Gentleman's Relish

John Murray
£8.99

George Geraghty, the notorious satirical cartoonist, ought to be enjoying his retirement to the wilds of North Cumbria. Instead he cannot shake off the legacy of his long dead father Bill, who spoke some fifty-five languages and had at least fifty-five mistresses. John Murray's latest wild extravaganza characteristically concerns itself with love, linguistics, familial rivalry and other contentious matters.......

Published by : Flambard Press Fiction
Published date : 2006
Format : Small paperback.

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A Good Liar

Ruth Sutton
£8.99

Ruth Sutton's powerful novel is the first of a trilogy creating an intimate picture of interconnected lives in Cumbria in the early twentieth century.

Published by : Hoad Press
Published date : March 2012
Format : 198 x 128mm paperback

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A Penny Spitfire

Brindley Hallam Dennis
£10.00

'As the Peace settles like dust on a town fractured by war, local Cumbrian author, Dennis explores lives dislocated from their pasts.



Published by : Pewter Rose Press
Published date : May 2011
Format : 136mm x 215mm paperback

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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 Rat's Tail - The Circular Scrolls

Bridget Trafford
£11.99

This is the first book in the Circular Scrolls series - seven in all - which take a journey of transformation.

Published by : Adastra
Published date : February 2007
Format : 155mm x 234mm

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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 Stone Cross Among the Fells

John Repath
£6.50

The background, history and relevance of the Ruthwell Stone Cross in North East Cumbria set within a fictional account.

Published by : J. Repath
Published date : 1999
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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An April Shroud

Reginald Hill
£6.99

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel from the Cumbrian author.

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

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Another Country - A Guide to the Children's Books of the Lake District and Cumbria

James Mackenzie
£15.00

'Another Country' invites you to take a journey into the landscape of the Lake District and discover the wonderful books it has transpired.


Published by : Girls Gone By
Published date : 2008
Format : 175mm x 247mm paperback

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Arms and the Women

Reginald Hill
£7.99

Featuring Dalziel and Pascoe.

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

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Black Ajax

George MacDonald Fraser
£6.99

Another bestseller from the Carlisle writer, author of the bestselling Flashman Papers series.

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

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Blood and Ashes

Matt Hilton
£6.99

Brooke Reynolds died in a car crash. Tragic accident, the police say. But her father Don Hoffman knows otherwise.

Published by : Hodder & Stoughton
Published date : 2011
Format : 130mm x 198mm paperback

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Blood on the Wall

Jim Eldridge
£19.99

Along the line of Hadrian's Wall, someone is murdering people and taking their heads. Is this a ritualistic killer or a revenge mission? Detective Inspector Andreas Georgiou of Carlisle CID is brought back from suspension to investigate.

Published by : Hale Books
Published date : March 2013
Format : Hardback; 234 x 156mm.

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Caution Red Squirrels

Shawn Williamson
£7.99

Deep in the Sacred Forest lurks a threat. Bella and the her grey squirrel army are circling, ready to enslave once and for all the resistant red squirrels and squash the last remnants of their way of life.

Published by : Red Squirrel Publishing
Published date : June 2007
Format : 130mm x 200mm paperback

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Coot Club

Arthur Ransome
£14.99

When Tom Dudgeon casts off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, it seems the only thing to do. But now the cruiser is searching high and low for him. Can Tom stay one jump ahead of his pursuers? The chase is on!

Published by : J Cape
Published date : 1982
Format : Hardback

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Coot Club

Arthur Ransome
£7.99

When Tom Dudgeon casts off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, it seems the only thing to do. But now the cruiser is searching high and low for him. Can Tom stay one jump ahead of his pursuers? The chase is on!

Published by : Red Fox
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback

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Credo

Melvyn Bragg
£8.99

Britain during the Dark Ages is the setting for the fascinating story of Bega, a young Irish princess who became a saint, and her lifelong bond with Padric, prince of the north-western kingdom of Rheged.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : Reprinted 2010
Format : 128mm x 196mm paperback

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Crossing the Lines

Melvyn Bragg
£8.99

Set in Wigton during the 1950s, this absorbing novel (which follows on from The Soldiers Return and Son of War) follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives.

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

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Cumbrian Folk Tales

Taffy Thomas
£9.99

This unique collection of folk tales from Cumbria were collected as fragments that the author has had to breathe life back into.

Published by : History Press
Published date : June 2012
Format : Paperback 123 x 198mm

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Curse of the Mardale Skull

George Luckman
£7.99

A series of grisly events unravels when the legendary Mardale skull is discovered by an archaeology student in this Cumbria based novel.

Published by : Pen Press
Published date : April 2012
Format : Paperback 196 x 128mm

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