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	Jazz etc. John Murray £8.99 On the 2003 Booker List. Vince Mori, an Italian Cumbrian, and a very passionate man. Vince is obsessed with women, the clarinet, and his trad jazz band, The Chompin Stompers. His son Enzo is obsessed with only one woman, Fanny, but she only has eyes for Published by : Flambard Published date : 2003 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	John Dory John Murray £7.99 This is the Brampton authors fourth novel; the hilarious yet poignant story of a middle-aged ice-cream salesman who becomes obsessed with the exotic fish in the local aquarium. His unusual passion, triggered by a moment of epiphany, leads him on a profound spiritual journey. Published by : Flambard Press Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Keeping the World Away Margaret Forster £7.99 With the wonderfully satisfying appeal of Forster's bestselling Diary of an Ordinary Woman and the historical delights of Lady's Maid, this engrossing novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early twentieth-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. Quintessential Forster, this is a novel about women's lives, about what it means and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, and an unusual, compelling look at a beautiful painting (by Gwen John) and its imagined afterlife. Published by : Vintage Published date : February 2007 Format : 130mm x 196mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Migrants Frederick Lightfoot £12.00 Sali Bata, a migrant worker, is accused of rape. Circumstances and witness accounts indicate obvious guilt, and the scene is set for a routine and cursory defence. But when Daniel Heron tugs at a thread in the warp of mundane reading he unravels a complex tangle of weakness, exploitation and hidden heroism. Published by : Superscript Published date : 2005 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Missee Lee Arthur Ransome £14.99 The Swallows and Amazons have finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them... forever. Published by : J Cape Published date : 1982 Format : Hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Missee Lee Arthur Ransome £7.99 The Swallows and Amazons have finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them... forever. Published by : Red Fox Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Mother Can You Hear Me? Margaret Forster £7.99 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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	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. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Mr Mullett Owns a Cloud Angela Locke £9.95 The magical story of a Cumbrian farmer and his adventures with the mischievous cloud, Napoleon. Published by : Cumbria Life Books Published date : October 2006 Format : 210mm x 150mm small paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Murphy's Favourite Channels John Murray £8.99 Four-times married Roe Murphy finds it rather strange that his life has always mimicked his favourite television programmes. Then in 2001 (the New York Towers, Foot and Mouth Disease) he buys his first ever satellite dish and things turn even stranger... Published by : Flambard Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	My Story - Roman Invasion - A British Boy AD 84 Jim Eldridge £5.99 It';s AD84 when Bran, a prince of the Carvetii tribe , is captured by the Romans. Alegion of soldiers is marching east, to build a military road. Published by : Scholastic Published date : September 2008 Format : 128mm 196mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Outlaws of Inglewood: A Cumbrian Legend Roger Chambers £7.95 This book re-tells the medieval legend of Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough and William of Cloudesley. Published by : Exposure Publishing Published date : 2007 Format : 155mm x 234mm; paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Over Margaret Forster £16.99 This is a novel about what happens after a tragedy in a family. Not the tragidy itself but its aftermath, what's left when the tide recedes and it's over. Published by : Chatto & Windus Published date : February 2007 Format : 160mm x 240mm Hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Over Margaret Forster £7.99 This is a novel about what happens after a tragedy in a family. Published by : Vintage Published date : August Format : 130mm x 196mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Peter Duck Arthur Ransome £14.99 The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Captain Flint when they hear a tale to set their pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Published by : J Cape Published date : 1983 Format : Hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Peter Duck Arthur Ransome £7.99 The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Captain Flint when they hear a tale to set their pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Published by : Red Fox Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Pigeon Post Arthur Ransome £7.99 Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea set off to discover a lost gold mine. But they soon run into all sorts of trouble. Published by : Red Fox Published date : 2001 Format : Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Pigeon Post Arthur Ransome £14.99 Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea set off to discover a lost gold mine. But they soon run into all sorts of trouble. Published by : J Cape Published date : 1983 Format : Hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Power and Stone Alice Leader £4.99 It is a long, long way from Rome to Hadrians Wall - and Marcus isnt sure he wants to be in cold, gloomy Britain. He and his brother have come to be with their soldier father, here at the edge of empire. Published by : Puffin Published date : 2003 Format : Paperback. 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:

	Radio Activity: A Cumbrian Tale in Five Emissions John Murray £8.99 First published in 1993, Radio Activity was immediately hailed by the critics as a comic tour de force. This is a riotously tall tale (or is it?) about Chernobyl, Sellafield, valve radios and Morocco. Published by : Flambard Press Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. 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: