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ART / Individual Artists / Monographs

Nathan doesn't know who he can trust. With enemies on all sides, he faces a race against time to get his dad out of prison and solve a mystery. Set around the top-secret Second World War codebreaking site Bletchley Park, The Messenger Bird is the gripping children's thriller from Ruth Eastham, award-winning author of The Memory Cage.

Art of Freedom, by award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, is a profound and moving profile of Voytek Kurtyka, one of the international climbing world's most respected, complex and reclusive mountaineers. Winner of the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.

Unknown Pleasures is a collection of works by the climber and author Andy Kirkpatrick. Obsessed with climbing and addicted to writing, Kirkpatrick is a master storyteller. Covering subjects as diverse as climbing, relationships, fatherhood, mental health and the media, it is easy to read, sometimes difficult to digest, and impossible to forget.

When a playground scrap becomes a fight to the death, and an ancient curse is awakened, Jack, Skuli and Emma must uncover the arrowhead's secrets - before a terrible evil is unleashed. Award-winning children's author Ruth Eastham weaves twists, turns and adventures into the rollercoaster ride that is Arrowhead.

SPORTS & RECREATION / Walking

A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.' Stephen Venables, Alpine JournalAcclaimed as one of the most powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written, The Endless Knot is a harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster.A rare first-hand account from a survivor at the very epicentre of the drama, The Endless Knot describes the disaster in frank detail. Kurt Diemberger's account of the final days of success,...

The Ogre, by Doug Scott, is a two-part biography of this enigmatic peak: in the first part, Scott has researched the geography and history of the mountain, part two is the overdue and personal account of his and Chris Bonington's first ascent and their dramatic descent on which Scott suffered two broken legs and Bonington smashed ribs.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

Kinder Scout: The People's Mountain by Ed Douglas and John Beatty is a celebration of a northern English mountain and our role in its creation. In this unique collaboration they reveal the social, political, cultural and ecological developments that have shaped the physical and human landscape of this enigmatic and treasured hill.

Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's elements: crossing its oceans, deserts and poles, canoeing its rivers, climbing its mountains, and descending into its caves.Bonington selects seventeen of the most thrilling expeditions and adventures of the second half of the twentieth century, uncover...

All these colours, from the blue sky to the yellow valley smoothly blending as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine.'Having spent significant time obsessively exploring and learning about the Sierra, John Muir's passion for and belief in preserving the wilderness steadily grew. He believed that excessive grazing and logging would result in its eventual destruction, and so campaigned to designate the area as a protected n...

If I could choose a place to die, it would be in the mountains.'Clouds from Both Sides is the autobiography of Julie Tullis, the first British woman to climb an 8, 000-metre peak - Broad Peak - and the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.A truly remarkable woman, Julie describes her early days in a London disrupted by World War II, her family life, climbing, teaching and living by the sandstone outcrops of High...

It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.' That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. Eric Shipton was a pioneering explorer, journeying to places that did not feature on maps and to unexplored mountains, such as the High Dauphiné. Shipton describes early childhood days filled with adventures, his first encounter with the high...

SPORTS & RECREATION / Walking

Day Walks in the Cotswolds features 20 circular routes, between 7.1 and 12.6 miles (11.5km and 20.2km), suitable for hillwalkers of all abilities. Local author Judy Mills shares her favourite walks in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Features Ordnance Survey 1:25, 000 maps, easy-to-follow directions, and local information.

Their bodies flickered strangely. Time was running out. Aidan's village is under siege from a fracking company. Aidan and his friends have one last hope. Legend has it that the warrior queen Boudicca is buried close by. If only they can find the tomb ... The Warrior in the Mist is the latest novel from award-winning children's author Ruth Eastham.

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