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Books Cumbria : The Arts : Fiction

Fiction

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The Reavers

George MacDonald Fraser
£18.99

Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of 'The Flashman Papers' and 'The Pyrates'. Spoiled, arrogant, filthy rich, and breathtakingly beautiful, the young Lady Godiva Dacre is exiled from the court of Good Queen Bess (who can't abide red-haired competition) to her lonely estate in distant Cumberland, where she looks forward to bullying the peasantry and getting her own imperious way.

Published by : Harper Collins
Published date : September 2007
Format : 160mm x 240mm hardback

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The Reavers - CD

George Macdonald Fraser
£18.99

Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of The Flashman Papers and The Pyrates.

Published by : Harper Collins
Published date : July 2007
Format : 8 CD SET

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The Season Ticket

Jonathan Tulloch
£6.99

The funny, sad and utterly convincing story of Sewell and Gerry and their quest for a season ticket to see their beloved Newcastle United.

Published by : Vintage
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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The Second Inheritance

Melvyn Bragg
£5.99

Set in the Border country, this follows two young men as they struggle with the constraints of a close knit farming community.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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The Secret Valley: The Real Romance of Unconquered Lakeland

Nicholas Size
£8.00

The Secret Vally tells the story of how the people of Lakeland held out for half a century against the Norman conquerors. The headquarters of the resistance were in a hidden location, the upper part of the valley which contains Crummock Water and Buttermere. The historical facts concerning Lakeland in the Norman period are scant, and Size has therefore written his book in the form of a historical novel.

Published by : Llanerch
Published date : 1996
Format : Paperback.

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The Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury

Margaret Forster
£7.99

The Pendleburys, ageing and alone in their old Islington house, have a relationship based on mutual tolerance. Rose reluctantly allows her neighbours to prove that she is not too old for friendship and hope.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1978
Format : Paperback.

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The Shadow of a Crime - A Saga Set in and Around the City of Wythburn in the Valley of Thirlmere

Hall Caine
£7.99

The Shadow of a Crime Excerpts.......................
Because there was no evidence to convict the poor soul, suspicion that is worse than conviction, must so fix upon him, that he's afraid to sleep his nights in his bed at home, but must go where ever a braggart loon of Wythburn dare follow him,

I'll wager there's not a man among you dare go up to sim's cave tonoihg, yet you send him up there every night of the year.

Robbie dropped the reigns of the mare, and ran to Ralphs aid. At that moment a mighty gust of wind came down from the fell, and swept through the channel, it caught the mare, and startled by the loud cries of the men and the barking of the dogs, and afrighted by the tempest, she startled away at a teriffic gallop over the mountains, with the coffin on her back.


Published by : Cumbria's Rogues and Rascals 2009
Published date : August 2009
Format : 130mm x 195mm paperback

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The Silken Net

Melvyn Bragg
£6.99

A powerful novel of a woman from the small market town of Thurston, and her love affair with Edgar and the bond which eventually becomes a shackle.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 1993
Format : Paperback.

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The Soldier's Return

Melvyn Bragg
£16.99

A sensitive and poignant tale of readjusting to life after the war.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 1999
Format : Hardback.

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The Soldier's Return

Melvyn Bragg
£9.99

Read by the author, this is an audio version of the best selling novel.

Published by : Hodder Headline
Published date : 1999
Format : 2 cassettes.

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The Soldier's Return

Melvyn Bragg
£8.99

Set in the spring of 1946, this is the sensitive tale of one family trying to adjust to life after the Second World War.

Published by : Sceptre
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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The Stranger House

Reginald Hill
£6.99

For over 500 years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to all manner of travellers. People like Sam Flood, a brilliant young Australian mathemetician, and Miguel Madero, a Spanish historian who sees ghosts.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 2006
Format : Paperback.

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The Zoo - A Romp With Dictators

Eric Robson
£9.00

'The inside story of Tony Blair's last days in power as told by the people closest to the power struggle'. A fast moving tale of political intrigue that takes us from London to Washington, Central Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan,and Britain's Guantanamo Bay. Above all it answers that most enduring of political conundrums - whatever happened to.......?

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : August 2007
Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback

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Tibet's Secret Mountain

Chris Bonington; Charles Clarke
£7.99

The story of the authors attempts to reach the summit of the Great White Snow God and how the 22,800 ft secret mountian rejected them, but as they say, "only just".

Published by : Phoenix
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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Time Lapse - 20th Century Short Stories

Elizabeth Love
£8.99

This is an unusual and unique book of short stories, which gives an individual insight into life in the North of England during the last century.

Published by : Vanguard Press
Published date : November 2007
Format : 132mm x 198mm paperback

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Twenty Gold Sovereigns - The Sequel to Barnslaps and Beyond

Peter Ross
£15.00

In November 1888 an already preganant Maria Douglas has little choice but to marry the easygoing James Atkinson, whom she loves, even though she knows it will mean a life of poverty and a succession of children.

Published by : PR Publications
Published date : February 2010
Format : 132mm x 198mm paperback

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Under Water

Christopher Burns; Ali Smith
£5.00

Acclaimed fiction writers Christopher Burns and Ali Smith were each comissioned to write a short story taking water as a starting point. Their imaginations took them in very different directions.

Published by : Cumbria County Council
Published date : 2003
Format : Spiral paperback.

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Vanessa

Hugh Walpole
£7.99

The fourth and final volume of the Herries Chronicles, described as 'incomparably the best' in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of 'effortless brilliance' (Observer) which starts with the triumph of Judith Paris's hundredth birthday in the 1870's and then moves to the tragic disillusionment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Published by : Frances Lincoln
Published date : reprinted October 2008
Format : 130mm x 198mm paperback

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Victor

David Ramshaw
£10.00

This first novel by David Ramshaw is set in 19th century Carlisle, a time of great change and expansion, with the opening of the Carlisle Canal. It tells the story of a fictitious family who lived in Carlisle throughout those exciting and occasionally dangerous times.

Published by : P3 Publications
Published date : 2005
Format : Paperback.

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Voyageurs

Margaret Elphinstone
£7.99

In the early 1800s, Rachel Greenhow, a young Quaker, goes missing in the Canadian wilderness. Unable to accept the disappearance, her brother Mark leaves his farm in England, determined to bring his sister home.

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

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Walking Country Lakeland Fells: Keswick & the North

Paul Hannon
£5.99

A range of walks centred around Keswick and the north.

Published by : Hillside Publications
Published date : 2008, 2nd impression
Format : Paperback.

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We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea

Arthur Ransome
£14.99

When John, Susan, Titty and Roger find themselves adrift in the treacherous waters of the North Sea, theyre suddenly having a real adventure and only their sailing skills can help them.

Published by : J Cape
Published date : 1983
Format : Hardback

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We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea

Arthur Ransome
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When John, Susan, Titty and Roger find themselves adrift in the treacherous waters of the North Sea, theyre suddenly having a real adventure and only their sailing skills can help them.

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

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Winter Holiday

Arthur Ransome
£14.99

When Dick and Dorothea meet up with the Swallows and Amazons, theyre soon swept into a wild adventure of polar expeditions, mountain rescues, blizzards, igloos, ice sailing and heroic work amidst the frozen wastes.

Published by : J Cape
Published date : 1984
Format : Hardback

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Winter Holiday

Arthur Ransome
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When Dick and Dorothea meet up with the Swallows and Amazons, they are soon swept into a wild adventure of polar expeditions, mountain rescues, blizzards, igloos, ice sailing and heroic work amidst the frozen wastes.

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

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