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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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Dreams of the Blue Poppy Angela Locke £18.99 Forbidden to walk because of his illness, Charles Fergusson is growing up a spoiled, sickly child. He dreams of becoming a plant hunter, and of finding the fabled Blue Poppy which grew in his grandmother's garden in Sikkim, but it seems he will be trapped forever in the dark house in the Cumbrian fells. Published by : Hale Published date : June 2007 Format : 160mm 240mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Fell of Dark Reginald Hill £6.99 Set in his native Cumberland, this was Hills first novel, and with its cleverly interwoven strands of detective story, psychological thriller and adventure it is plain to see why Hill is in the topmost ranks of British crime fiction. Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 1998 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Flash For Freedom! George MacDonald Fraser £6.99 Volume three of the Flashman Papers series. Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Flashman and the Angel of the Lord George MacDonald Fraser £6.99 The tenth instalment in the Flashman Papers series. Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Flashman and the Dragon George MacDonald Fraser £6.99 The eighth instalment in the Flashman Papers series. Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 1999 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Flashman and the Redskins George MacDonald Fraser £6.99 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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Flashman on the March George Macdonald Fraser £7.99 The Flashman Papers XII. Who better to undertake a perilous mission into deepest Abyssinia to rescue Britons held hostage by a mad emperor than the ever reluctant Sir Harry Flashman, V.C.? Published by : HarperCollins Published date : 2005 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Gone Feral Gwen Moffat £18.99 The Boathouse, in scenic Cumbria, is inherited by Sophie Daynes, who cherishes it for its family associations. Her bore of a husband, in his forties and obsessed by his mistress, covets it for its cash value. Husband, wife and lover, all have their champions - while up in the woods a man lives in a caravan whom gossip maintains is a villain from Manchester forced to lie low. Gossip, greed and passion is exacerbated in high summer when the pleasure steamer churns up more than mud from the lake floor and a terrible package is revealed, changing the lives of all connected with the boathouse. Published by : Constable Crime Published date : July 2007 Format : 140 x 220mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Great Northern? Arthur Ransome £7.99 Dicks birdwatching discovery turns a pleasant cruise of the Hebrides into a desperate chase. Published by : Red Fox Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Happy Climbing Tells No Tales Judith Brown £5.95 Rarely is climbing fiction worth reading: generally it is dismal stuff full of miserable characters who can't pay their bills and spend their days on the dole gazing out of rain spattered windows in some grim northern town. All thoroughly depressing - there are some notable exceptions of course but sadly they are few and far between. Published by : Open Mountain Published date : October 2007 Format : 140mm x 215mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Haweswater Sarah Hall £7.99 A first novel of love, obsession and the destruction of a community, set in a remote dale of Westmorland in 1936. Told in luminous prose by Cumbrian-born author Sarah Hall. Published by : Faber and Faber Published date : 2003 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Hazard's Way Roger Hubank £12.00 A novel set around the turn of the 19th century concerning a young mans development and his struggles to cope with strict Edwardian family life, with conflicting attitudes toward the Boer War, and with the contradictory influences of the friends Published by : The Ernest Press Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Hide and Seek Clare Sambrook £6.99 Hide and Seek is the story of Harry Pickles who tells it like it really was when he was nine, and his little brother disappeared. This book is startingly real, achingly sad, unexpectedly funny, Hide and Seek tells the fresh and gripping story of a family whose world is shattered by loss. Published by : Canongate Published date : 2005 Format : Small Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Immigrants Frederick Lightfoot £9.99 LOCAL AUTHOR: Fred's first novel "Migrants" addressed the plight of East Europeans in contemporary London, and in this novel he goes back in time and details the traumas, trials and triumphs of an Irish immigrant community in northern England: 'It is a work crammed with incident and character, in which people not only have to struggle with their own day to day existence. Published by : Four O'clock Press Published date : June 2007 Format : 134mm x 200mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Is There Anything You Want? Margaret Forster £6.99 What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot and Chrissie have in common? They're all women, but they're fat, thin, old, young, married or single - and appear as diverse as human nature can be. But they are all survivors, their lives connected by events occuring in the same hospital clinic in a small Northern town. Published by : Vintage Published date : 2006 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Isaac Campion Janni Howker £5.25 A tale depicting the difficult relationship between a son and his horse dealer father after a family tragedy at the turn of the century. The authors childhood was mainly spent in Cumbria. Published by : Heinemann Published date : 1988 Format : Hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity: