The first fully revised & updated edition of A. Wainwright`s pocket-sized guide to the classic Coast to Coast Walk. From St Bees Head on the Irish Sea by way of the Lake District, the Pennines, Swaledale & the North York Moors & ending at Robin Hood`s Bay on the North Sea, this 190-mile walk has over the years become one of the best-loved long-distance routes in the world. First devised in the early 1970s, the walk has prompted countless enthusiasts to lace up their walking boots & follow Wainwright`s example, & inspired TV series by Tony Robinson for Channel 5 & Julia Bradbury for BBC Four. This brand new edition of the Pictorial Guide contains Wainwright`s h&-drawn route maps & his inimitable commentary, with the route, maps & text completely revised & brought fully up-to-date by Chris Jesty. ...

Wainwright`s Guides to the Lakeland Fells & Other Locations is a series collecting together the reproduced volumes of the great fell walker Wainwright’s famous hand drawn & written exhaustive guide to the Lake District in seven volumes plus an additional volume for minor fells (hardback, pocket size) & some related north of England titles.. Each guide contains a written description, hand drawn maps, & topographical diagrams of each route of ascent, sketches & often panoramas of the summit view, for all the hills in the area, along with available ridge routes to adjacent hills. Difficult areas are detailed in sketches & extra diagrams. There are a number of Wainwright titles, some in the Wainwright style & some collaborations with photographs, most of the current editions have been unobtrusively updated Chris Jesty for the twenty first century, with information such as car parks & campsites, & with paths actually in use on the ground shown in red, text changes are achieved by use of a ” Wainwright” font. ...

Wainwright`s Way is a journey on foot through Wainwright`s life from Lancashire to the Lakes. This walking guide charts a 126-mile long-distance route linking the place where Wainwright was born
- a Victorian terraced house in Audley Range, Blackburn
- with his final resting place on Haystacks, his heavenly corner of Lakel&. Along the way, the walk, split into ten day stages, literally follows in the footsteps of Wainwright at work, linking the sights he sketched & wrote about in a succession of Lancashire guides: A Ribble Sketchbook, A Bowland Sketchbook & A Lune Sketchbook. Continuing northwards, the walk arrives in the county Wainwright knew best, as celebrated in his books, Westmorland Heritage & Three Westmorland Rivers. Spending time in Kendal, where Wainwright lived for 50 years, the route stops to enjoy a unique circular town walk linking all the places associated with AW
- from the Museum & Library, to the Town Hall where he worked, to his two residences at Castle Grove & Kendal Green. From here, the walker enters Wainwright`s `earthly paradise` & takes a meandering course across Lakeland from Kendal to Buttermere, through the territory made so familiar by AW`s intimate Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. The route visits some of the lesser known valleys, passes & peaks recorded in The Far Eastern, Eastern, Central & Western Fells guides, & stops in Borrowdale, one of Wainwright`s favourite valleys, taking in a section of his Coast to Coast Walk along the way. The climax of the walk follows the final journey of Wainwright himself, as his ashes were carried onto Haystacks from Honister Pass to be scattered by the side of Innominate Tarn. From here, the walker drops down to the shores of Buttermere & visits the final memorial to Wainwright
- the window on to the fells in the tiny roadside church of St. James. It is a fitting end to both a memorable walk completed
- & a memorable life fulfilled. Much more than a route guide, this book uncovers the history, landscape & characters of many of the places sketched by Wainwright. It is a walk through some of the most spectacular scenery in the North of England
- including a surprising Lancashire, a county of dramatic river valleys, high moors & lonely woodland cloughs. This trek unites the two contrasting lives of the master fell walker
- his industrial Lancashire life & his Lakeland life. It takes in paths on the edge of mill town Blackburn that Wainwright is known to have walked along himself during his youthful sojourns into the Lancashire countryside.






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Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase & for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly & wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother & sisters, & their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country & her deep attachment to it & those who live & work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring & overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses & gardens, & in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband`s battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling & a total joy, full of the author`s sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself). ...

A gripping World War II adventure from War Horse author & former Children`s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. Jo did not stop until he`d shut the door behind him & even then his heart could not stop pounding in his ears. Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldiers start patrolling the mountains, & Jo realises the children are trapped. Jo`EURO (t)s slightest mistake could have devastating consequences.. . Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal & Guardian Fiction award In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom, Carrie`s War, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & perfect for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Waiting for Anya is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history. It will provide a wider context for kids who have studied the Holocaust & The Diary of Anne Frank. Other Michael Morpurgo titles you may enjoy: The Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon A Twist of Gold Private Peaceful ------ Former Children`s Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children`s authors in the country, loved by children, teachers & parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came & Kensuke`s Kingdom. Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children`s Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the ”poverty of experience” many young children feel in inner city & urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children.” For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers.” Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.
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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city`s preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence
- a world of sex, scandal & spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...
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In the Republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by something much more confusing, that`s for sure. There are no jobs in the cities. & when there are jobs, employees aren`t compensated. & when they are compensated, it`s because the jobs are not strictly scrupulous. When Slims discovers an application for an American small business internship programme sponsored by Hillary Clinton, he knows that he has found his calling. Slims` dreams of bringing opportunity & the American dream to his homel&, even as his friends & relatives embrace decadence & a staggering array of unsavoury business practices. But when he finally gets to America he sees what reform & progress look like up close. & suddenly, his loud, bickering family & his anguished, joyful country no longer seem so grim. ...

Ahmadou Kourouma`s remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora
- storyteller & king`s fool. Over the course of
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When police officer Theresa Grey is called to the New Zealand town of Kahukura on Tasman Bay, she drives straight into a horror story. The locals have been overwhelmed by a sudden collective madness, causing them to kill themselves & each other in truly gruesome ways. First, Theresa tries to help; then, she is forced to run for her life. An hour later, she emerges to a scene of carnage. There are thirteen other survivors. Slowly, they find one another & face their new reality: trapped in the town by some kind of invisible force-field, cut off from the world outside. What begins as a story of horror becomes a story of survival. Together, they must bury the dead, become a community, face their own fears & weaknesses. Ultimately, they must fight for their lives
- because whatever caused the insanity is still at large. & it hasn`t finished. Rich with atmosphere, alive to character & emotion, Wake is a riveting tour-de-force. A book about extreme events, ordinary people, heroic compassion
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Wakefield North in 1890 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the northern part of Wakefield & features include the Cathedral, Borough Market, St Andrew`s church, Westgate station, Prison (left blank for security reasons), St Johns Ward, Northgate Ward, West Riding Lunatic Asylum, St John`s Grove, East Moor, Westfield Grove, Newton, St John`s Mill, Wrenthorpe Colliery with railway line, Clark Hall, etc. On the reverse is an extensive selection of street directory entries, including Borough Market, Butcher Row, Northgate, Old Market Place, Stanley Road, Westgate & Wood Street. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...