Layout Table~~~~918~918~~

Wimborne Minster, A Portrait in Colour~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £2.99 TO 99p

A full colour guide to Wimborne Minster and the surrounding villages.

BARBARA WILLIS

Large format paperback  ISBN 1 874336 47 4

~~Wimborne Minster, A Portrait in Colour|315|~918~611~~

Farming~Farming has long been the main source of Dorset's prosperity. Here the story of farming in Dorset is brought vividly to life by an author as successful at unravelling its past as he is at explaining its present.

JOE BETTEY

ISBN 1 874336 69 4

~~Farming|325|~918~1242~~

Kent Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose & Poetry~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £7.95 TO £3.95

Anthologies of prose and poetry celebrating individual English counties, their history, people, landscape and character. Including extracts from wills, newspapers, court records, family letters and diaries, proverbs and sayings, gravestone epitaphs, court records, parish registers, handbills, etc.

JOHN VIGAR

Paperback  ISBN 1 904349 21 8

~~Kent Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose & Poetry|361|~918~653~~

Purbeck Camera~More than 160 photographs, from Victorian times to the present, that superbly illustrate the changing character of one of the most unspoilt and fascinating corners of Britain.

The photographs range from Corfe Castle to Old Harry rock, from the ill-fated village of Tyneham to the stone quarries that once brought the Isle of Purbeck its wealth. Virtually all include the people of Purbeck; ordinary men and women busying themselves with their lives throughout the 150 years covered by the photographs in this large format paperback book.

MIKE O'HARA & BEN BUXTON

Large format paperback  ISBN 1 874336 90 3

~~Purbeck Camera|302|~918~597~~

Cycling in Somerset~25 rides around Somerset, divided into various stages, with maps and points of interest along the way.

DAVID CHEETHAM

Paperback  ISBN 1 874336 25 3

~~Cycling in Somerset|368|~918~662~~

The Natural History of Dorset~Nearly 200 colour photographs illustrating one of the richest and most diverse of all the natural histories in England, with the wildlife of each habitat described by a leading naturalist.

THE DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST

Medium format paperback  ISBN 1 874336 40 7

~~The Natural History of Dorset|308|~918~683~~

The Isle of Wight Flora~Woodland, saltmarsh, sand dune, shingle, cliffs, wetlands, heathland and downland - it is the extraordinary variety of habitats in close proximity that makes the island's flora so special.

An authorative account of the current and historic status and distribution of flowering plants, mosses, liverworts and stoneworts; supported by chapters on the island's geology and topography, habitats, the vegetation history as understood from the pollen record, weather and climate, and historic botanists. 350 species distribution maps, 16 pages of colour plates.

Casebound with jacket and end papers and gold blocking on the spine
256 pages + 16 page colour section, 300 distribution maps

COLIN POPE, LORNA SNOW, DAVID ALLAN

Large format hardback  ISBN 1 904349 28 5

~~The Isle of Wight Flora|357|~918~680~~

Suffolk Bedside Book~A celebration of the sights and sounds of Suffolk, its history, people, landscape and character. Extracts from Anglo Saxon Chronicles, newspapers, The Breviary of Suffolk, family diaries, Suffolk sayings, church bell inscriptions, Quarter Session records, manuscripts, country spells and archives in Suffolk Record Office.

CLIVE PAINE

ISBN 1 904349 06 4

~~Suffolk Bedside Book|369|~918~1047~~

Lancashire Curiosities~A comprehensive illustrated guide to all that is most remarkable or curious in Lancashire. Another in the 'Curiosities of England' series.

RICHARD PEACE

ISBN 1 874336 42 3

~~Lancashire Curiosities|362|~918~1028~~

The New Forest, A Discovery Book for Children~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £4.95 TO 99p

70 items to be found in the New Forest, with photographs of each and clues on how to find them. In full colour throughout.

TERRY HEATHCOTE

ISBN 1 874336 45 8

~~The New Forest, A Discovery Book for Children|351|~918~744~~

The Council House Kid, Growing up in 1950s Sherborne~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £5.95 TO £1.99

Cliff Mogg’s affectionate portrait of the town in which he spent his childhood and teenage years, a childhood that really began the day the German bombs fell on the town and the blast threw the four-year-old Cliff into the ample bosom of the voluptuous ‘Girlie’ Freeman. Moving, funny and entertaining, this delightful book will stir the memories of all those who grew up in the Fifties.

CLIFF MOGG

ISBN: 1 874336 82 2

~~The Council House Kid, Growing up in 1950s Sherborne|307|~918~743~~

Dorset Maps~The first colour book on the maps of an English county to be published. Includes 70 maps in a 144 page large format hardback, nearly half of them in colour. Dorset's earliest map is a bird's eye view of the coast ordered by Henry VIII, its most recent a village map commissioned to mark the millennium. Many are unique or rare. There are playing card maps, town plans, distance tables, strip roads, estate and miniature maps, as well as a large scale map of 1765 and the first Ordnance Survey of 1811.

DAVID BEATON

ISBN 1 874336 79 2

~~Dorset Maps|296|~918~591~~

West Sussex Barns & Farm Buildings~The barns and farm buildings of West Sussex are one of the greatest glories. As well as adding to our enjoyment of the landscape, they form a visible record of an unrivalled architectural legacy, and this pioneering book - the first in full colour on the farm buildings of any English county - is long overdue; partly because their numbers continue to dwindle, but also because the changing character of farming has often obscured their original purpose.

ANNABELLE HUGHES & DAVID JOHNSTONE

ISBN 1 904349 00 5

~~West Sussex Barns & Farm Bulidings|372|~918~666~~

The Geology of Oxfordshire~An up-to-date, fully illustrated account of Oxfordshire's geological past. The rich variety of its landscapes derives from the character of the underlying rocks. The story of how those rocks originated is a journey through time and space, a journey of hundreds of millions of years across an Oxfordshire that has been hot desert, tropical rain-forest, coral sea, shallow lagoon and frozen waste. Colour illustrations and maps.

PHILIP POWELL

ISBN 1 904349 19 6

~~The Geology of Oxfordshire|547|~918~916~~

Yorkshire, A Portrait in Colour~Over 200 stunning colour photographs of the whole of Yorkshire, accompanied by detailed captions and an introductory text to each of the nine different landscapes that give Yorkshire its character.

DUNCAN SMITH
PHOTOGRAPHS: TREVOR CROUCHER

ISBN 1 874336 33 4

~~Yorkshire, A Portrait in Colour|375|~918~1027~~

The New Forest, A Portrait in Colour~The New Forest is unique. Its boundaries enclose 145 square miles of some of the most beautiful countryside in Europe. Originally established as a Royal Forest by William the Conqueror more than 900 years ago, its riches have never before been so well-served by a photographer.

Nearly 200 colour photographs of deer, the ponies, the oak and beech woods, the Forest's towns and bustling harbours, its keepers and foresters at work in the woods. The book was the subject of a television feature on publication.

JACK HARGREAVES
PHOTOGRAPHS: TERRY HEATHCOTE

ISBN 0 946159 91 2

~~The New Forest, A Portrait in Colour|376|~918~670~~

A Shepherd's Delight, Memories of a Downland Shepherd~For 45 years, and in all weathers, Larry Skeats folded the flocks in his care over the Dorset downland, using only his dogs and wattle hurdles. At lambing time his home became a shepherd's hut. These were farming's golden years, when the great autumn sheep fairs filled the market towns. A Shepherd's Delight is both a celebration of a vanishing way of life by one of the last of the traditional shepherds, and a modest and often amusing portrait of country life.

LARRY SKEATS

Paperback  ISBN 1 874336 94 6

~~A Shepherd%27s Delight Memories of a Downland Shepherd|293|~918~588~~

Northamptonshire Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose and Poetry~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £7.95 TO £3.95

A celebration of the sights and sounds of Northamptonshire, its history, people, landscape and character. Extracts from Anglo Saxon Chronicles, wills, newspapers, court records, family letters and diaries, proverbs and sayings, gravestone epitaphs, Quarter Session records, parish registers, handbills, notes & queries, interviews.

Selected and introduced by

TONY NOBLE

Paperback  ISBN 1 904349 05 6

~~Norhamptonshire Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose and Poetry|365|~918~659~~

Lincolnshire Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose & Poetry~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £7.95 TO £3.95

Anthologies of prose and poetry celebrating individual English counties, their history, people, landscape and character. Including extracts from wills, newspapers, court records, family letters and diaries, proverbs and sayings, gravestone epitaphs, court records, parish registers, handbills, etc.

JUDITH SPELMAN

Paperback  ISBN 1 904349 23 4

~~Lincolnshire Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose & Poetry|364|~918~658~~

Surrey Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose and Poetry~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £7.95 TO £3.95

A celebration of the sights and sounds of Surrey, its history, people, landscape and character. Extracts from newspapers, family letters and diaries, Surrey sayings, gravestone epitaphs, Quarter Session records and parish registers.

JOHN JANAWAY

Paperback  ISBN 1 904349 07 2

~~Surrey Bedside Book A Collection of Prose and Poetry|373|~918~667~~

Sussex Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose & Poetry~SPECIAL OFFER - REDUCED PRICE FROM £7.95 TO £3.95

Anthologies of prose and poetry celebrating individual English counties, their history, people, landscape and character. Including extracts from wills, newspapers, court records, family letters and diaries, proverbs and sayings, gravestone epitaphs, court records, parish registers, handbills, etc.

DAVID ARSCOTT

Paperback  ISBN 1 904349 22 6

~~Sussex Bedside Book, A Collection of Prose & Poetry|371|~918~665~~

A Georgian Marriage~The Family Papers of Sir Nash & Lady Grose 1761-1814

Thirty years ago the historian Avril Pedley bought a large cardboard box at a West Country auction. Inside, bundled and tied with pink ribbon, were nearly 600 original letters telling the story of the courtship and marriage of the wealthy lawyer and circuit judge Nash Grose and his wife Mary.

Over the years, Avril Pedley has pieced together the story of the Groses and the friends and family that made up their immediate circle, and the result is a delightfully intimate account of a Georgian love affair. Here is English life from the American War of Independence to the field at Waterloo, told in plain terms, with its faults and merits, always aware of London and the greater world of politics and fashion but close to the life of a country house on the Isle of Wight, where the Groses had a house.

EDITED BY AVRIL PEDLEY

352 pages + 8 pages of plates

Hardback in an edition of 250 copies

ISBN 978-1-904-34951-8

~~A Georgian Marriage|608|~918~1304~~