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Glyndwr's Way (British Long-Distance Trails S.) by Chris Catling
summonedbyfells's review: "Thanks to bad weather it has taken me two outings to complete the Owain Glyndwr Way trail with this edition of the Cicerone guide, written in 2005 based on a map survey of...
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Cool War: The Future of Global Competition by Noah Feldman
summonedbyfells's review: "A timely and authoritative analysis from Noah Feldman (Professor of International Law at Harvard University) concerning potential outcomes and the engagement strategies...
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Couples by Michael Stewart
summonedbyfells's review: "Novelist and poet Michael Stewart takes Leo Tolstoy’s oft-quoted observation that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” and prunes it...
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Lifting the Piano with One Hand by Gaia Holmes
summonedbyfells's review: "As the title poem relates - it takes a strong woman to single-hand a piano up three flights of stairs! Fortunately in Gaia’Holmes’s second collection her strengths extend...
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The Drove Roads of Scotland by A. R. B. Haldane
summonedbyfells's review: "The Drove Roads of Scotland. By A.R.B.Haldane Republished by birlinn In the year of my birth, 1946 A.R.B.Haldane was working on the research that ended in the publication of...
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King Crow by Michael Stewart
summonedbyfells's review: "The only good thing about being felled low and hacked off by coughs, cold and laryngitis is the chance to lighten the load of that mini-library of unread books colonising my...
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Down To The Sea In Ships by Horatio Clare
summonedbyfells's review: "Horatio Clare is a gifted travel writer who specialises in never taking the easy option. This is an engrossing and sympathetic account of the trade of mercantile seamanship....
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The Fateful Year: England 1914 by Mark, Bostridge
summonedbyfells's review: "At the beginning of the year I was aware that 2014 would see; (indeed it had already started in 2013), the publication of battalions of titles rooted in the anniversary of...
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Cycling After Thomas And The English by David Caddy
summonedbyfells's review: "In this anniversary year of the beginning of the 1914-1918 Great War, I have been mugging-up on Edward Thomas, his poetry combined with the complexities of his nature, his...
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The Pirate: A Romance of the Orkney Islands by Sir Walter Scott
summonedbyfells's review: "A facsimile copy of an early imprint, difficult to read so I bought a Kindle edition, much better for my old eyes. Tale is excellent for anyone with an interest in the...
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Moontide by Niall Campbell
summonedbyfells's review: "Scotland's off-shore poetry platform is getting quite a boost these days what with Jen Hadfield on the Shetland Isles (Byssus) and now Nial Campbell from South Uist has his...
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Watching the Door Cheating Death in 1970s Beflast by Kevin Myers
summonedbyfells's review: "This is a harrowing-gripping read. A very personal chronicle of “The Troubles” by a young Leicester born journalist arriving in Belfast at the beginning of the 1970’s to...
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Collected poems by Michael Roberts Roberts, Janet Louise,
summonedbyfells's review: "Long out of print I recently purchased a second hand copy of this writers collected poems, he died in 1948. Faber's publication includes an interesting introduction by his...
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Hugh Miller - The Cromarty Stonemason by The National Trust
summonedbyfells's review: "A small booklet picked up for a few pence in a second-hand book-shop in Haworth about a year ago. Its a National Trust guide to the Hugh Miller’s birthplace museum in...
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The Battle of Nevilles Cross by J W Dickenson
summonedbyfells's review: "A brief (but enlightening) history of the Battle of Nevilles Cross and the rout of King David II of Scotland by the English forces commanded by Lord Ralph Neville in the...
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Apocryphal Tales of Durham Cathedral by J.W.Dickenson
summonedbyfells's review: "A collection of anecdotal curiosities relating to Durham Cathedral by the local historian J.W. Dickenson."
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The Manor House of Beaurepaire by Ian S Coppinger
summonedbyfells's review: "A brief guide to the Manor House of Beaurepaire granted to the Prior and Convent of Durham part of an estate of1300 acres. The house was built by Prior Bertram de Middleton...
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H is for Hawk
summonedbyfells's review: "Delighted to hear that Helen Macdonald's wonderful memoir has scooped the Samuel Johnson prize. There was a buzz about this book almost as soon as it was published, chuffed...
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Out There by Jamie McKendrick
summonedbyfells's review: "Its good to see Jamie McKedrick's regular additions to the poetic flow from Liverpool, I got this copy of his latest collection during last October's Durham Book Festival. I...
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Memoirs of a Highland Lady (Canongate Classic) by Elizabeth Grant
summonedbyfells's review: "Elizabeth Grant lived through stirring times of great historical interest, this first volume of her memoirs is striking for its descriptive power and the accuracy of first...
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