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Digging for Memories -
The Women's Land Army in Cornwall

edited by Melissa Hardie

The stories of over 100 Land Army girls, now aged between 80 and 100 years, together with photographs, cuttings, memorabilia in scrapbook form. A beautiful addtion to any library collection concerning World War II. A unique piece of Cornish history.

ISBN

1-872229-64-6

Large format softback

64pp illustrated in black and white

£12.50 (post free)
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Chatter of Choughs

edited by Lucy Newlyn
illustrated by Lucy Wilkinson

To celebrate the return of the chough to Cornwall, this is a collection of specially commissioned work, featuring some of Britain's leading poets and scolars.

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ISBN

1 872229 49 2

Hardback

176pp illustrated in black and white

£15 (+£2.50 p&p)
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Chatter of Choughs

edited by Lucy Newlyn
illustrated by Lucy Wilkinson

To celebrate the return of the chough to Cornwall, this is a collection of specially commissioned work, featuring some of Britain's leading poets and scolars.

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ISBN

1 872229 59 X

Large format softback

176pp illustrated in black and white

£10 (+£2.50 p&p)
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Violets Unfold in My Throat

John Gordon

A collection of new verse, intertwining ancient, mythical and contemporary imagery to express themes ranging from passion, sorrow, loneliness and desire, to fantasy, mysticism, abandonment and genocide.

ISBN

1 872229 57 7

Softback

97pp illustrated

£7.50 (+£1 p&p)
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Balmaidens

Lynne Mayers

The extensively researched story of the women and girls who worked at the mines of South West England.
This book has been awarded the Holyer An Gof trophy by Gorseth Kernow, for the best Cornish published in 2004.

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ISBN

1 872229 48 4

 

 

Large format softback

250pp illustrated in black & white

This book is now sold out


Letters to Lydia: 'beloved Persis'

Barbara Eaton

Fact and Fiction: the 19th-century love affair between Henry Martyn, a chaplain of the East India Company, and his 'beloved Persis' in Cornwall, Lydia Grenfell, based on their letters and diaries.

ISBN

1 872229 54 9

Large Format Softback

410pp illustrated

£12.50 (+£2.50 p&p)
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The Country of The Woodlanders

Charles Simpson

The famous Newlyn artist's account of his wartime agricultural work in Dorset with reference to the works of Thomas Hardy. Illustrations by the author.

ISBN

1 872229 53 0

Softback

65pp illustrated

£6 (+£1 p&p)
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100 Years in Newlyn,
Diary of a Gallery

Melissa Hardie (Ed.)

The history of Newlyn Art Gallery (1895-1995) and the associations of artists from the early Newlyn School painters through to the present.

ISBN

1 872229 22 0

Large format softback

250pp Illustrated in colour and black & white

£10 (+£2.50 p&p)
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100 Years in Newlyn,
Diary of a Gallery

Melissa Hardie (Ed.)

The history of Newlyn Art Gallery (1895-1995) and the associations of artists from the early Newlyn School painters through to the present.

ISBN

1 872229 17 4

Hardback

250pp Illustrated in colour and black & white

£15 (+£2.50 p&p)
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An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall

'by the author of John Halifax, Gentleman'
(Dinah Maria Muloch Craik)

Facsimile reprint of Mrs Craik's 1884 Travel Diary with notes by Professor Charles Thomas and Melissa Hardie.

ISBN

0 9507689 6 0

Hardback

200pp Illustrated by C Napier Hemy

£10 (+£2.50 p&p)
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Penzance 2000 - the Town and Around

Melissa Hardie

A history of the town of Penzance, its geographical, social and cultural life from pre-history to the present.

ISBN

1 872229 40 9

Softback

110pp Illustrated

£7.50 (+£1 p&p)
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A View from the Bottom Left-Hand Corner

Andrew George, MP

A compilation of articles written for The Cornishman, plus photographs and drawings describing his first term in Parliament by the MP for the St Ives constituency.

ISBN

1 872229 40 9

Softback

190pp

£10 (+£1 p&p)
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The Literature of Cornwall

Alan M. Kent

Continuity, Identity, Difference, 1000-2000.

ISBN

1 90017828 1

Softback

336pp

£15.95 (+£1 p+p)
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Cornwall, The Cultural Construction of Place

Ella Westland (Ed.)

Thirteen essays on 'that imagined land beyond the River Tamar' by eminent scholars and writers.

ISBN

1 872229 27 1

Softback

169pp

£9.95 (+£1 p&p)
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Salome Hocking: A Cornish Woman Writer

Gemma Goodman

ISBN

1 872229 51 4

Softback

82pp

£7.50 (+£1 p&p)
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The Hensbarrow Homilies

Alan Kent

Kent explores his continuing concern with Cornish identity, culture and poetry.

ISBN

1 872229 44 1

Softback

56pp

£7.50 (+£1 p&p)

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Violetta Thurston - A Celebration

Muriel Somerfield and Ann Bellingham

Biography of a Cornish woman, weaver, nurse and novelist.

ISBN

1 872229 08 5


 


Softback

128pp Illustrated

This book is now sold out

 

Friends and Visitors: a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Cornwall 1870-1914

Katherine Bradley

ISBN

1 872229 38 7

Softback

90pp

£5 (+£1 p&p)
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'Wives, Mothers and Sisters': Feminism, Literature and Women Writers in Cornwall

Alan Kent

ISBN

1 872229 33 6

Softback

68pp

£5 (+£1 p&p)
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A Mere Interlude: Literary Visitors to Cornwall

Melissa Hardie (Ed.)

Essays on Virginia Woolf, John Betjeman, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and their Cornish interludes by international scholars.

ISBN

1 872229 06 9

Softback

200pp Illustrated

£5 (+£1 p&p)
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Marlow Moss: Constructivist and the Reconstruction Project

Florette Dijkstra

The life and art of a Cornish-based artist in mid 20th century Cornwall.

ISBN

1 872229 26 3

Large format softback

48pp Illustrated in colour

£10 (+£1 p&p)
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Carn Voel, My Mother's House

Katharine Tait

A biographical memoir of the Cornish home of Bertrand and Dora Russell.

ISBN

1 872229 28 X

Numbered, limited-edition softback

48pp Illustrated in colour and black and white

£7.95 (+£1 p&p)
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Postscript: With Love to Penwith

Gerald Priestland

Foreword by Sylvia Priestland

Two essays on the early religious history of Cornwall.

ISBN

1 872229 02 6

Numbered, limited-edition softback

48pp Illustrated

£7.95 (+£1 p&p)
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Another Penwith Day

Jacqueline Pritchard

A portrayal of an emotional journey vividly set in the Cornish landscape.

ISBN

0 9547985 1 1

Softback

16pp with illustrations by the author

£3 (+£1 p&p)
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The Giants - Les Géants

Retold by Angie Butler

A story of Cornish giants in English and French.

ISBN

1 903999 00 6

Softback

26pp Illustrated

£4.95 (+£1 p&p)
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