Cumbria Guide Book Club: March/April 2024
Cumbria Guide Book Club
March/April 2024
Welcome to the Cumbria Guide Book Club.
Here you will find some fantastic books, written by local authors. If you love a good read on a warm spring afternoon there might be something here for you!
Minnie’s Scrapbook: A journey in the footsteps of Minnie Pratt
by Gary Johnston
Shortlisted for Lakeland Book of the Year 2023!
The chance to find a long-lost scrapbook leads author Gary Johnston on a remarkable and unexpected journey.
This book follows his endeavours to discover the identity of the unknown person who first compiled the scrapbook and painted the many beautiful watercolours that were found hidden within its torn and battered pages.
She Will Return
by Mark G Pennington
When a young woman voluntarily checks herself into a psychiatric hospital in the hope of saving her marriage, she uncovers a dark secret that will change lives forever.
A successful writer struggling to keep his family together. His wife, and mother to his two children, suffering from dangerous blackouts. A local journalist battling to keep her past at bay. And the thing that connects them all: the woman who vanished one day in 1988 and was never seen again…until now.
Jardinière
by Kerry Darbishire
Kerry Darbishire was brought up in a wooden house on the banks of the River Brathay. Her poems have grown out of this beautiful landscape, times and people who have influenced her. She still lives in Cumbria and continues to be inspired by her natural surroundings.
Jardinière can be bought directly from: [email protected]
The Age of Reason
by Francis McKrickard
More recent adult fiction, The Age of Reason, was runner-up in the 2023 Lakeland Fiction Book of the Year. This novel and Sacrifice are both set in West Cumbria.
It is available through Amazon. He is also a prize-winning flash fiction writer.
For more information go to Facebook or www.amazon.co.uk
Lost in The Lakes
by Tom Chesshyre
Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre for a Lakeland adventure like no other.
Explore towering mountains, wide-open valleys and magnificent lakes – stopping off at a cosy inn or two along the way – as you hike with Tom across landscape that so inspired the Romantic poets.
Take in remote parts of the parkland that many tourists miss and enjoy encounters aplenty with farmers, fell runners and fellow hikers, while staying in shepherds’ huts, bothies and old climbers’ hotels along the way, and even going for a (chilly) dip in Derwentwater.
A Century of Fells
by Sue Millard
The Fell Pony is the heritage horse breed of North-West England, and its roots go back to pre-history.
Descended from the fast, enduring Galloway stock mentioned by Shakespeare, the Fell pony became known by its modern name around 1853. From being a hardy farm worker, a tough military mount and pack-horse, a foundation breed for the upper-class recreation of polo, and a tradesman’s pony in town, by the 1950s it had been adopted as a fun ride-and-drive for all the family, resilient, friendly, clever and easy to keep.
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Also we have a new release from Paula Hillman, Chapel Field is set on Walney Island and is a must read.