| Harrison Ainsworth,
The Lancashire Witches |
Ainsworth's last masterpiece, The
Lancashire Witches proved a best-seller in its day and influenced
many contemporary authors. The Lancashire Witches begins in the
16th century: when a Cistercian monk, Borlace Alvetham, is falsely
accused of witchcraft and condemned to death by his rival, Brother
Paslew, he sells his soul to Satan and escapes. Years later, granted the
powers of a warlock, he returns in the guise of Nicholas Demdike to
witness Paslew's execution for treason. Dying, Paslew curses Demdike's
offspring - who become the titular Lancashire Witches...
The rest of the book is set in the 17th century. Mother Demdike, a powerful
witch, and her clan face rival witches, raise innocent young Alizon Devi
as their own, and try to corrupt Alizon despite her innocent ways.
Ultimately, the book becomes a struggle between Heaven and Hell, with
Alizon's fate hanging in the balance.
Price £6.95 (paperback) ISBN 1899181490
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| Mary Joyce Baxter, The Past Recaptured |
This autobiography describes the difficulties Mary Joyce Baxter
experienced in being accepted for nursing training and the obstacles
that had to be overcome to achieve her ambition. Price 8.99
(paperback) ISBN 9781848761926
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| Andrew Brown, Giving Up
Smoking: The Painful Method |
A hilarious account of one man's life,
from a skint, naughty Burnley schoolboy to a millionaire at forty,
retiring only to risk it all on a completely different venture.
Price £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 1905529147 |
| Dave Burnley,
Got to be there. |
Dave lives 75 miles from Turf Moor, he
cant drive, yet he hasnt missed a competative game (home or away) for 35
years. This is His story. A great read for any fan, of any team or any
sport. Anyone who has just "Got to be there".
Price £10.00 (paperback) ISBN 9780956335302 |
| E L Campbell, Two for a
Penny: A Post-war Childhood |
From his birth in May 1945, Tommy
Calvert's young life is shadowed by events of momentous historical
significance taking place in the world around him, but it is the smaller
scale, personal histories of Tommy and his friends which hold us
spellbound in this beautifully evocative book.
A victorious ascent of Pendle Hill, the purchasing of a television set
and an FA Cup Final trip may not go down in the history books with the
defeat of Nazi Germany or the death of King George VI, but these
anecdotes bear witness to a changing world as the memories of a time
gone by, and they cannot but make us smile.
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN 1844015017
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| John A Clayton, Cotton &
Cold Blood |
A true story of Victorian England where
humour & tragedy filled ordinary lives.
Sarah Ann Davis was born into an
iron-working family in the Black Country. The fickle hand of fate
conspires against Sarah and she moves north to the cotton manufacturing
district of East Lancashire.
Life as a household servant in the
village of Barrowford goes well until fate once again shows its hand by
introducing her to Edison Neal.
Sarah's life is played out against the
true stories of the characters of the black country and the East
Lancashire milltown communities of Burnley, Nelson & Pendle Forest.
Price £8.99 (paperback)
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 James
Cowell, God Loves a Trier |
The personal story of a boy's journey
from Second World War rationing and fear of the Nazis, to childhood
adventures and escapades; from working in the coal mines at only fifteen
years old, to manhood and finally taking his place in the world. Fans of
his brother John's The Broken Biscuit and Cracks in the
Ceiling will love James's take on life in Burnley.
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN 1904034608 OUT OF STOCK |
 John
Cowell, The Broken Biscuit |
The story of one woman's struggle and
refusal to succumb to adversity - the beatings of a violent husband, the
crippling poverty of the age - to raise six children and devote a
lifetime to charity and good works.
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN 190340245X John
has now supplied us the last copies of these get yours now
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 John
Cowell, Cracks in the Ceiling |
The coming-of-age saga of John Cowell.
John is the hugely likeable son of Winifred, whose story he told so
movingly in the bestselling biography The Broken Biscuit.
Cracks in the Ceiling takes us through John's young life during the
Forties and Fifties when he lived in Burnley with his adored mother,
Winifred, his father, Jack, and his siblings until - as a young National
Service soldier - he leaves for the faraway Cameroons in West Africa.
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN 1903402883
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|
John Cowell, Elephant Grass |
The final part of John Cowell's
autobiographical trilogy.
Price £8.99 CALL IN FOR A SPECIAL OFFER PRICE (paperback) ISBN 9781844547111
John has now supplied us the last copies of these get
yours now |
|
Ernest Dewhurst, A Pennine Childhood |
As a boy in the 1850s Ernest Dewhurst's
great-grandfather was dispatched by train from Bolton to Colne in
Lancashire. The label pinned to his jacket read 'Anyone can have this
lad that wants him'. Thinking about the harshness of his
great-grandfather's childhood prompted Ernest to examine his own
upbringing, and the comparative cosiness of a small Pennine farm above
Nelson between the Pendle Witch Country and the more distant Bronte
moors.
Set in a clearing between two world wars, A Pennine Childhood -
with its memories of cotton mills, milk rounds and markets, chapels and
chip shops, gaslight and gossip, cowboys, comics and classrooms - will
bring back memories for anyone who lived through this period.
Price £12.99 (paperback) ISBN 0750943165 OUT OF STOCK |
 Martin
Dobson, Ultimate Goals |
Former Burnley player Martin Dobson is
the first England footballer to write a novel, and Ultimate Goals
- aimed at a young teenage readership - is full of the kind of detail of
life at a football club that should grab these readers' attention.
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN-13 9781899807598 |
| P J Fyles, Burnley Boys |
The local hit of 2006, now available
again in limited quantities: Peter Fyles' autobiographical novel about
growing up in 70s Burnley.
Price £9.99 (paperback) OUT OF STOCK |
| Keith Hoare, Ragged
Cover: The DreamStalkers |
In the war-ravaged countries of Europe,
at the turn of the nineteenth-century, an ancient secret society called
the DreamStalkers use their magical powers to create a playground for
children... Fantasy fiction for teenagers.
Price £6.00 (paperback) ISBN-13 9781899820474 |
 Colin
Ingram, The Family Grit |
A children's fairy tale by a local
author about the adventures of the Family Grit - a family of mice who
fall on hard times but make a new life in the country after meeting
charismatic mouse Dandelion.
Price £8.99 (paperback) ISBN-13 9781906050238 |
| Albert Morris, Rolling
Out the Days |
A nostalgic memoir of growing up in 20s
and 30s Barrowford (originally published as In Those Days), now
reissued in a new omnibus edition, complete with the previously
unpublished account of the author's subsequent adventures in wartime
India and Burma.
Price £7.45 (paperback) ISBN 0955382130 |
 Kate
Mullholland, A Cry of Innocence |
The tragic tale of the Pendle Witches,
who were taken from their homes to die on the scaffold at Lancaster in
1612, unfolding a rich tapestry of love, hatred and final betrayal in
the shadow of Pendle Hill.
Price £6.95 (paperback) ISBN 0860671291 |
| Kate Mulholland,
The Icarus Legacy |
Down through the centuries came the curse.
the
destiny of both male and female, immutable, inexorable, and for
katherine hewitt in the 17th century-Fatal.
What would happen in the 21st century?
price £6.95 (paperback) ISBN 9780953735020 |
| Robert Neill, Mist Over
Pendle |
The Forest of Pendle during the early
seventeenth century: a wild inaccessible corner of Lancashire where the
ancient fear of demons and witches is still part of life - and death.
When several local people die in mysterious circumstances, Squire Roger
Nowell dismisses talk of witchcraft as superstition. But soon a series
of hideous desecrations take place, and there are unmistakable signs
that a black coven is assembling to plot a campaign of evil and
destruction...
The classic novel, now available again at last.
Price £5.99 (paperback) ISBN 0099067803
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 Charles
Nevin, Lancashire, Where Women Die of Love |
Enough! For far too long, Lancashire has
languished under the grimy pall of smoke and muck and mills and mines,
enveloped in outdated condescensions, smothered by the easy dismissals
that put down the north of England as just 'up there' and 'grim'. Thank
you very much George Orwell, Monty Python and every London cabbie.
Join Charles Nevin, Fleet Street journalist and humorist, as he returns
to his roots to celebrate all that is wonderful about our county in this
wry celebration of Lancashire and its people.
Price £7.99 (paperback) ISBN 1845960378 |
 Thomas
Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in
the Countie of Lancaster |
Nearly 400 years after they were tried,
there is still huge interest in the Lancashire Witches. Their
activities, arrest and trials have been the subject of many books, none
of which could have been written without reference to Thomas Potts'
Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie Of Lancaster.
Previously only available in libraries and museums, Potts' book has been
reproduced here from the original 1612 volume. A unique and invaluable
reference work.
Price £6.95 (paperback) ISBN 1859361005
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| Charlotte Richardson,
Where is Pinky?. |
this is another book of fairy stories written by
Charlotte Richardson. it contains both old and new stories of the brown family and
their animal friends. suitable for all ages from 2 - 102
£5.99 9781898722786
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| Charlotte Richardson,
Tyn-y-Morfa's Dreams |
A collection of children's stories based
on the author's family holidays in Wales.
Price £5.95 (paperback) ISBN 1898722536
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| Charlotte Richardson,
Fairies & Facts the Lancashire Way |
A further collection of children's
stories.
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN 1898722676 OUT
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| Linda Sawley, Everyone
Else's Children |
Forget Casualty, ER and
Children's Ward; this book is about the real world of nursing and
hospital life. Driven by childlessness, Linda Sawley has always cared
for everyone else's children, first as a nursery nurse, then as a
midwife and later as a sister on a children's ward. Sometimes funny,
sometimes sad, this autobiography describes how the author worked with
children from the late sixties until 1991 when she left to teach
nursing.
a few signed copies available
Price £5.50 (paperback) ISBN 0953432904
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| Linda Sawley, A Ring in
Time |
Sarah Evans is a librarian in Whalley.
Her life is exciting and fulfilled until disaster strikes.
The first novel by local author Linda Sawley.
a few signed copies available
Price £6 (paperback) ISBN 0953432912 OUT
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| Linda Sawley, Changes |
Award-winning local author Linda
Sawley's sequel to her popular novel The Key. Set in 1895 in Clitheroe, it continues the story of Jenny Marshall
during a time of rapid change that affects her life, the town where she
lives, and the wider world.
a few signed copies available
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN 0953432963 OUT
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| Linda Sawley, The
Survivor |
Arabella Montague is a spoilt pampered
heiress who spends her nineteenth birthday aboard the Titanic. Although
she survives the fateful maiden voyage of 'the unsinkable ship', her
life is irrevocably changed, and she eventually ends up as a nurse in
World War One.
The latest novel by Read-based Linda Sawley.
a few signed copies available
Price £6.99 (paperback) ISBN-13 9780955725807 OUT
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| Michael Spencer,
The Life & Rhymes of Mickey Plum |
The lively and humorous autobiography of
a child growing up in Rosegrove in the forties, written in an endearingly
screwball style.
Price £10.99 (paperback) ISBN 0646425609 |
| Jill Swallow, Days before
Dibley |
An informative and moving account of the
days when women could only be deacons in the Anglican Church.
The hugely popular TV series 'The Vicar of Dibley' transformed British
attitudes to women priests. A few years before it was created things
were very different. Jill Swallow faced ignorance and prejudice every
day. But she recounts her experiences as a deaconess in the time before
women priests, much of it at parishes in Goodshaw and Crawshawbooth,
with humour and insight.
Price £8.99 (paperback) ISBN-13
9781850787242 |
| Tattersall Wilkinson,
Memories of Worsthorne and District |
Newly edited by Ramon Collinge.
Price £9.99 (paperback) |