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LAKELAND LIFE in the 1900s An illustrated talk Proceeds to Médecins sans Frontières for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal Author Irvine Hunt speaks with warmth and enthusiasm about the Lake District and its past. The talk embraces farm and fell, crafts and trades, and ranges from daily life around the family hearth to the remoteness of the shepherd tending his sheep on Helvellyn's heights. Millhouse Village Hall, Hesket Newmarket Thursday 8th April, 2010 at 7.30pm ********************** Word Market The Drover's Boy, and other readings Croftlands Junior School, Ulverston Tuesday 9th February 2010 ********************** Word Market Cumbrian author Irvine Hunt will talk about life as a writer and read extracts from his page-turning adventure story, The Drover's Boy. Penrith Library Monday February 8th 2010 at 2pm ********************** Origins: an Old Lakeland evening Irvine Hunt reads from The Drover's Boy and talks about the origins of Road to Paradise and Lakeland Yesterday. An illustrated talk at the Bluebell Bookshop, Penrith Tuesday 17th November 2009 7.30pm |
The Drover's Boy paperback published by Handstand Press, East Banks, Dent, Sedbergh LA10 5QT. Order by phone 015396 25571 or email handstandpress@talktalk.net £6.99 plus p & p. ISBN 97809 552 0094 6 Obtainable from Cumbrian bookshops, especially Tinners' Rabbit Bookshop, 48 Market Street, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 7LS Tel; 01229 588858 email: bookshop@thetinnersrabbit.co.uk Bluebell Bookshop Angel Square, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 7BT Tel: 01768 866660 Fax: 01768 891645 email: bluebell@gn.apc.org Carlisle Bookends, 56 Castle Street, Carlisle Cumbria CA3 8JA Tel: 01228 529 067 www.bookscumbria.com Keswick Bookends, 66 Main Street, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5DX Tel: 017687 75277 ISBN 978-0-9552009-4-6 ************************************ Road to Paradise. Fourteen commended short stories set in Lakeland, with illustrations by David Boyd. Evocative vivid tales bring to mind characters of an altogether different way of Cumbrian life. Hardback at £14.95 plus p and p, published by CN Group Limited, Newspaper House, Dalston Road, Carlisle, CA2 5UA Tel: 01228 612600 ISBN 0952 5742 84 |