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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 Canon in Keswick - A Keswick Anthology by Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley

Introduced and edited by Stephen Matthews
�12.00

Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920) was vicar of Crosthwaite for 34 years.

He established the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. He was one of the founders of the National Trsut and was directly responsible for the Trust owning vast tracts of land in the area.

Publisher :	Bookcase
Published :	March 2020
Pages :	217p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 148mm

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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 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

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 Boyhood

David Clark, Lord Clark of Windermere
�12.00

David Clark has always believed the Lake District is a special place. His memoirs of the forties and fifties give a unique insight into a thriving rural community of working people which is now long gone. His warm style brings to life his happy years growing up in a family struggling to make ends meet; including facing eviction, which made a lasting impression on him. Working on the land meant the family lived close to nature and he learned the names of all the local flora and fauna.

Publisher :	Hayloft
Published :	May 2020
Pages :	182p
Format :	Paperback; 200 x 130mm

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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 Peopled Landscape: A Lakes Anthology by Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley

Introduced and Edited by Stephen Matthews
�15.00

LONGLISTED FOR LAKELAND BOOK OF YEAR 2020

Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920) left his mark on the Lake District. He founded the National Trust and he fought for the conservation of the landscape. He erected monuments and resurrected festivals and established the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. And he was a very energetic, opinionated and influential clergyman and parish priest.

Publisher :	Bookcase
Published :	February 2020
Pages :	293p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 148mm

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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 Wasdale Lad: A pictorial history of Lakeland farming life

Rob Steele
�10.00

After setting the scene by introducing some forbears, "A Wasdale Lad" tells the story of growing up in West Cumberland in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Publisher :	TR Publishing
Published :	September 2020
Pages :	127p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 148mm

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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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