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'It's Only Me'
David Raw
£12.00
This is the humbling and incredible story of Revd Theodore Hardy, VC, DSO, MC, who was the most decorated civilian of the Great War.
Publisher :
Hayloft
Published :
1988
Pages :
105
Format :
148mm x 210mm paperback
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'Over the Hills and Far Away' - The Life of Beatrix Potter
Matthew Dennison
£8.99
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life.
Publisher :
Head of Zeus
Published :
April 2017
Pages :
272p
Format :
Paperback; 198 x 129mm
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A Camera in the Hills - The Life and Work of W A Poucher
Roly smith
£20.00
W.A. Poucher (1891-1988) was a man of diverse talents. He was a pioneering and prolific landscape photographer and the author of a string of illustrated books, among them the famous photographic climbing guides recently reissued by Frances Lincoln.
Publisher :
Frances Lincoln
Published :
October 2008
Pages :
192
Format :
253mm x 187mm hardback
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A Carlisle Lad - The Story of James Parker Templeton
Jim Temleton
£12.00
James Templeton is a memorable man with a wonderful tale to tell. His words leap from the page as he transports you back to a less frenetic world, where people who were usually financially poorer than they are today were much richer in every other respect.
Publisher :
Ink Truck
Published :
March 2007
Pages :
80
Format :
297mm x 210mm paperback
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A Country Doctor: A Lifetime in General Practice
Brian Frost-Smith
£18.00
This book explains what it was like working as a GP sixty years ago compared with being a doctor today.
Publisher :
Hayloft Publishing
Published :
October 2017
Pages :
250p
Format :
Hardback; 205 x 144mm
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A Cumbrian Copper
Ray Huddart
£10.00
Ray Huddart was a Cumbrian policeman for 38 years including twenty as head of C.I.D.
Publisher :
BOOKCASE
Published :
November 2008
Pages :
240
Format :
210mm 148mm paperback
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A Dream Come True: The Life and Times of a Lake District National Park Ranger
David Birkett
£8.00
This is the personal story of a man inspired by the great outdoors. The books significance is enhanced by the background to Davids story which is the early years and development of the Lake District National Park Authority.
Publisher :
Hayloft
Published :
2002
Pages :
142
Format :
Paperback.
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A Farmer's Life: A Tale to Tell
John P. Kirkbride
£10.00
John Kirkbride's autobiography of a life spent farming in Cumbria. Looking back over his ninety years, he remembers the early days in Westmoreland, life on a farm at Longtown, the days he spent at the heart of the farming community and the days at the auction mart.
Publisher :
Bookcase
Published :
June 2018
Pages :
114p
Format :
Paperback; 210 x 148mm
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A Farmer's Life: A Tale to Tell
John P. Kirkbride
£10.00
John Kirkbride's autobiography of a life spent farming in Cumbria. Looking back over his ninety years, he remembers the early days in Westmoreland, life on a farm at Longtown, the days he spent at the heart of the farming community and the days at the auction mart.
Publisher :
Bookcase
Published :
June 2018
Pages :
114p
Format :
Paperback; 210 x 148mm
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A Hatful of Crows
Ian Davidson
£10.00
'A Hatful of Crows' is the much anticipated follow-up to Dynamiting Niagara, by Lakeland author Ian Davidson. The first book looked at Mr Davidson growing up in Broughton Mills after the Second World War.It followed his eccentric attempts to establish himself in the area during the sixties, when the simple pattern of rural life was altered forever by the advent of electricity, television, cheap transport and the pill.
Publisher :
Longhouse
Published :
July 2007
Pages :
264
Format :
140mm x 215mm paperback
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A Lakeland Climbing Pioneer - John Wilson Robinson of Whinfell Hall
Michael Waller
£10.00
Spear-heading the birth of rock-climbing in the English Lake District in the 1880's was a fraternity of visitors, who made their base at Wasdale Head. They were joined by a local dalesman, John Wilson Robinson, of Whinfell Hall in Lorton.
Publisher :
Bookcase
Published :
March 2008
Pages :
148
Format :
140mm x 210mm paperback
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A Lakeland Saga: The Story of the Collingwood and Altounyan Family in Coniston and Aleppo
Jeremy Collingwood
£9.99
Jeremy Collingwood brings together the lives of the English and Armenian Collingwood family in the Lake District and Syria.
Publisher :
Sigma Leisure
Published :
July 2012
Pages :
144p.
Format :
Paperback.
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A Life in the Day
Hunter Davies
£16.99
'Ken Loach might have turned all this into a powerful social film, but the avuncular Davies sprinkles in so many cheery anecdotes that the book bounces along enjoyably' (Sunday Times) - Praise for VOLUME 1: THE CO-OP'S GOT BANANAS! 'As long as I'm alive, I'll be with her, and she'll be with me.' Hunter Davies on Margaret Forster.
Publisher :
Simon & Schuster
Published :
July 2017
Pages :
384p
Format :
Paperback; 216 x 135mm
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A Life in the Day
Hunter Davies
£8.99
Hunter Davies' childhood lived amongst the post-war dirt and grime of Carlisle was immediately hailed as a classic memoir from one of Britain's foremost columnists of the past half century.
Publisher :
Simon & Schuster
Published :
April 2018
Pages :
374p
Format :
Paperback; 199 x 130mm
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A Man of No Taste Whatsoever
M E Brown
POA
This is a brief account of the life and activities of an obscure provincial gentleman who managed to combine the role of country squire in Nottinghamshire with a life of fantasy in Cumberland.
Publisher :
Author House
Published :
May 2010
Pages :
56
Format :
215mm x 215mm paperback
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A Native Breed: Starting a Lake District Hill Farm
Andrea Meanwell
£12.00
Andrea Meanwell helped out on her aunt and uncle’s hill farm in the North Pennines in Westmorland as a child and dreamt about having her own flock of sheep.
Publisher :
Hayloft
Published :
December 2016
Pages :
134p
Format :
Paperback; 178 x 120mm
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A Passionate Sisterhood
Kathleen Jones
£10.00
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have become such a literary myth that we are used to looking at the Lake District solely through their eyes.
Publisher :
The Book Mill
Published :
November 2010
Pages :
362
Format :
128mm x 205mm paperback
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A Perfect Friend: The Life of Cumbrian Plant Hunter William Purdom
O. V. Presant
£18.00
Described as reticent, stubborn, courageous or endearing by those who knew him, William Purdom believed every worker deserved a living wage.
Publisher :
Hayloft
Published :
December 2019
Pages :
176p
Format :
210 x 160mm
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A Portrait of a Friendship - William Wordsworth & James Losh
Pamela Woof
£5.00
This essay began as a lecture given at Wreay, near Carlisle, when a study day was held to promote interest in St. Mary's Church, Wreay and to raise funds for the restoration of its roof.
Publisher :
The Wordsworth Trust
Published :
2008
Pages :
34
Format :
150mm x 225mm paperback
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A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney
David A. Cross
£35.00
Richly illustrated, this is the first biography of Romney to explore the full diversity of his innovation.
Publisher :
Ashgate
Published :
2000
Pages :
288
Format :
Hardback.
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A Victorian Odyssey: The 1858-1872 Letters of Mungo Travers Park
Geoffrey Faux
£14.95
A Victorian Odyssey is a contemporaneous account of middle class Victorian English life related through the letters of Mungo Travers Park (great nephew of renowned African explorer Mungo Park) to his family.
Publisher :
Geoffrey Faux
Published :
Feb 2018
Pages :
409p
Format :
Paperback; 246 x 188mm
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A Wet Thursday Afternoon.
Terence Ted Beckett
£9.99
Sequel to Ted's popular biographical work, The Cannibal Mouse, this book is a further collection of tales from the everyday life of an ordinary Botcherby lad.
Publisher :
Terence Ted Beckett
Published :
March 2017
Pages :
287p
Format :
Paperback; 235 x 156mm
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Against All Odds: The Stories of 25 Remarkable Adventurers
Roger Bunyan
£15.00
Adventurers of yesteryear had a far more arduous and challenging time. With that, it's quite remarkable that such impressive achievements were made...There are dozens of fascinating stories of hardy, pioneering men and women venturing to all corners of this globe that have been forgotten.
Publisher :
Hayloft
Published :
December 2019
Pages :
248p
Format :
Paperback; 200 x 130mm
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Against All Odds: The Stories of 25 Remarkable Adventurers
Roger Bunyan
£15.00
Adventurers of yesteryear had a far more arduous and challenging time. With that, it's quite remarkable that such impressive achievements were made...There are dozens of fascinating stories of hardy, pioneering men and women venturing to all corners of this globe that have been forgotten.
Publisher :
Hayloft
Published :
December 2019
Pages :
248p
Format :
Paperback; 200 x 130mm
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An Ancient Squires Family - The History of the Aglionbys c. 1130-2002
Henry Summerson
£25.00
The Aglionbys owed their importance to the fact that they became, and remained for nine hundred years, a solid abiding presence in the squirearchy of Cumberland, a section of local society that there, as everywhere else, played a vital part in the structures of local government and social organisation.
Publisher :
Bookcase
Published :
November 2007
Pages :
272
Format :
176mm x 250mm hardback
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