Like Coast, the book is a celebration of the British landscape, specifically the Lake District, & it tells the remarkable story of Alfred Wainwright who in 1952 decided to hand draw a series of guides to the fells of Lakel&.

For the next 13 years he spent every weekend walking, & every weekday evening drawing & writing
- completing one page per night. The result was Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. Although initially self published they have now sold over a million copies & are still popular & much loved today.

He went on to present a series of TV shows on the BBC about walking in the Lake District that made him even better known. Like Fred Dibnah he was an unlikely celebrity, he preferred his own company & thought walking in the countryside should be a solitary rather than group pursuit. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his birth & this TV series & book are sure to introduce him to a new generation of lovers of the countryside.

Features some of Wainwright's favourite walks & is lavishly illustrated including a large number of aerial shots of Lakel&.






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Andy Cameron is one of Scotland's best-loved comedians. He has appeared in countless television, theatre & cabaret shows during his 30 years in showbusiness & he never fails to reduce his audience to tears of laughter. Behind the jokes & smiles, however, is an amazing life story. Born in London to a Scots father & an English mother, Andy's mum abandoned him when she ran off with another man while his father was in Egypt during the Second World War. He was looked after by an elderly lady but was later found in a bombed-out building after one of the air raids of the Blitz. When his father was recalled from the desert, Andy was taken by troop train to Rutherglen to be brought up by his beloved granny, Bella. He started out on the comedy scene in the early '70s, compering other acts at the Rolls Royce club in Glasgow. Andy then worked his way through the Scottish social-club scene & up the cabaret tree to take his place in theatres & on our television screens in shows such as It's Andy Cameron, Andy Cameron Live & Shammy Dab. He brought much fun & laughter to the airwaves with his fantastic Radio Scotland show Andy Cameron's Sunday Joint, which ran for 15 years. A man of many talents, he played the role of taxi driver Chic Cherry in the long-running Scottish soap High Road & also recorded the most unlikely of hit songs, ' Ally's Tartan Army' to cheer on Scotland's national side in the 1978 World Cup campaign. He now broadcasts his Sunday radio show on Clyde 2 & has never been more popular with his after-dinner act & cabaret shows, both at home & abroad. ...

Faced with a future that holds little promise, Lydia Halley longs to leave home. But it is only after her mother's tragic death that she finally seizes her chance of freedom
- a freedom she has yearned for all her life.

Taking up lodgings in the bustling city of Redbury, she meets handsome stranger Guy Anderson & so begins a friendship which blossoms into love. Until one day a telegram from Italy brings devastating news for Guy & their passionate leave-taking has dramatic consequences for them both...


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For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted & ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again & again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition & family still hold sway & where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different WAITING charms & startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love. ...

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted & ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again & again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition & family still hold sway & where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different WAITING charms & startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love. ...

It is September 1944; the war is going badly for the Germans, & they are in a hurry to complete their 'final solution'. Compromises are being made on all sides, conditions are unspeakable, rumours are rife, but nothing definite is known of the Nazis' intentions. On the outskirts of a concentration camp in northern Bohemia three people
- two eighteen-year-old men & a desperately lost young woman, Leah
- are thrown together, sharing their precarious existence in an attic room. While the world disintegrates around them their relationships are charged with passion, their days filled with erotic & spiritual attraction. Caught in the web of their relationships, their futures are uncertain & any choices they have left to make will be made in the face of almost certain death...

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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians & the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims & into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor & oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice & decency. ...

Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold & in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day & the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.

RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for Christmas He has been on covert operations in France & knows he has to return there. While in Engl&, he rediscovers a passion that he thought was long over.

In a freezing hut on Salisbury Plain, Sergeant Harris's mind is occupied by questions of just how his young & ebullient wife is coping with their separation. His troops are training for landing on the shores of Normandy.

US officer Harry Miller arrives in Somerset where his American division has set up its headquarters. His affair with an Englishwoman is both bittersweet & potentially dangerous.

Enjoying fishing off the coast of occupied Jersey is German cook sergeant Fred Weber. He believes he has found a sort of peace in the midst of the terrible conflict. But his calm is soon to be shattered as his war takes on a violent twist...

Each man is heading inexorably towards the beaches of France where the great battle will begin...









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