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An extract from Racing the Wind, A Cumbrian Childhood Memoir by Patricia Nolan
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An extract from Racing the Wind by Patricia Nolan. This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s.
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Dogs do not simply share our lives - they shape them - Taught by Dogs by Colin Whittemore
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TLS Review of TO THE EEL ISLAND, AN EVENING JOURNEY by CHARLES MOSELEY - 'Relentlessly Fascinating'
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A review for To the Eel Island by Charles Moseley in the TLS. On one level this is about relocating in later life to a new home that is more manageable
Far more than a mere memoir of moving house, the book becomes a philosophical inquiry into rootedness, change, and the persistence of the past in the fabric of the present.
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A local author profile for Laurence Catlow in Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
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Laurence Catlow's new book was reviewed in a feature on the author in the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald. His new book Testament of a Trout Fisher is a personal, reflective and moving account of when the sport means to him, and his sense of grounding and connection to the rivers he fishes.
'Catlow is considered to be one of the finest and most thoughtful writers on flyfishing today. He has written a new book, Testament of a Trout Fisher....Catlow's writing is littered with lines that sit in the memory long after the page has turned'
COUNTRYSTRIDE: Audio dispatches from Cumbria
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An interview with author Patricia Nolan, who's memoir Racing the Wind describes a happy childhood in Boot, Eskdale.