"One Man And His Dig" by Valentine Low

The book "One Man And His Dig" by Valentine Low is currently available at Amazon for £4.57 which is a 43% discount.

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Bizet. Carmen, L'Arlésienne. Marc Minkowski.

The CD "Bizet - Carmen: Prelude & Entr'actes, L'Arlesienne: Orchestral Suite" conducted by Marc Minkowski is available from Amazon for £13.99 though you can get it cheaper from their New and Used section

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Anna Akhmatova. Complete Works

"The Complete Poems Of Anna Akhmatova" is available from Amazon for the price of £25.
"Selected Poems" by Anna Akhmatova is available from Amazon for the price of £6.99 (22% discount).
"Anna of all the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova" a well regarded biography by Elaine Feinstein is available from Amazon for £6.99 ( 30% discount).



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"The Return of History and the End of Dreams" by Robert Kagan.

"The Return of History and the End of Dreams" by Robert Kagan is available from Amazon for the price of £5.59 which is a 30% discount.

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"The Invention Of Scotland" by Hugh Trevor-Roper

The book "The Invention Of Scotland" by Hugh Trevor-Roper is currently available from Amazon for £18.04 which is a 5% discount.

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"Confessions of An English Opium Eater" Thomas De Quincey

Amazon has a number of editions of "Confessions Of An English Opium Eater" by Thomas De Quincey. The links below are for a couple of the cheapest' (The second book also contains "On The Knocking Of The Gate In Macbeth", "Suspiria De Profundis" and "The English Mail Coach").

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A "Wainwright" Lakeland Reading List

Wainwright: The Biography by Hunter Davies is available from Amazon. Click on the blue link to go to the right page where you can read more.

Wainwright's TV Walks. Again click on the blue link to find out more about the book "Wainwright's TV Walks.

Wainwright's Guidebooks

Wainwright's "Wainwright Anniversary Boxed Set Pictorial Guides to the Fells 1-7 (Wainwright 50th Anniversary ed)" is available from Amazon as a complete box set for £53.99 which is a 40% discount. Click on the blue link to go to Amazon where you can read more. Alternatively you can buy individual editions by clicking on the links below.

Book 1: Eastern Fells: 1 (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 50th Anniversary Editions) (1955)
Book 2: The Far Eastern Fells: 2 (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 50th Anniversary Editions) (1957)
Book 3: Central Fells: 3 (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 50th Anniversary Editions) (1958)
Book 4: Southern Fells: 4 (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 50th Anniversary Editions) (1960)
Book 5: Northern Fells: 5 (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 50th Anniversary Editions) (1962)
Book 6: North Western Fells: 6 (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 50th Anniversary Editions) (1964)
Book 7: Western Fells: 7 (Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 50th Anniversary Editions) (1966)

The Lakeland Drawings.

Lakeland Sketchbooks: Special Edition A Special Edition of all 5 Lakeland sketchbooks.
A Lakeland Sketchbook (Lakeland Sketchbook 1) (1969)
A Second Lakeland Sketchbook (Lakeland Sketchbook 2) (1970)
A Third Lakeland Sketchbook (Lakeland Sketchbook 3) (1971)
A Fourth Lakeland Sketchbook (Lakeland Sketchbook 4) (1972)
A Fifth Lakeland Sketchbook (Lakeland Sketchbook 5) (1973)




Also available from Amazon are "Pennine Way Companion" (1968), "Walks in Limestone Country" (1970) and "Walks on the Howgill Fells" (1972)



and "A Coast to Coast Walk" (1973) and "The Outlying Fells of Lakeland" (1974)

"Worlds At War" Anthony Pagden

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A Gore Vidal Reading List

This is a list of the fiction and non fiction books of Gore Vidal. Each blue link will take you to Amazon where you can read more and buy the books if you wish. Many of the earlier works are only available from Amazon's New and Used Section where the prices range from a penny to over £80. Where they are brutally expensive it is worth trying e-bay.

Essays and Non-Fiction

Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969)
Homage to Daniel Shays; Collected Essays, 1952-1972 (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays- 1973-1976 (1977)
Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1982)
Armageddon? (1987)
At Home Essays 1982-1988 (1988)
A View from the Diners Club
Screening History
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Real Story Series) (1992)
United States: Essays, 1952-92 v. 1 (1993)
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995)
Virgin Islands (1997)
The American Presidency (1998)
Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
The Last Empire(2001)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Yale Nota Bene series) (2003)
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia(2004)
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
Selected Essays (2008)

Novels

Williwaw(1946)
In a Yellow Wood(1947)
The City and the Pillar (1948)
The Season of Comfort (1949)
A Search for the King
Dark Green, Bright Red(1950)
The Judgment of Paris (1952)
Messiah (1954)
Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories (1956)
Julian (1964)
Washington, D.C: A novel (1967)
Myra Breckinridge & Myron (1968)
Two Sisters (1970)
Burr (Narratives of a Golden Age) (1973)
Myron (1974)
1876 (Narratives of a Golden Age) (1976)
Kalki (1978)
Creation (1981)
Duluth (1983)
Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age) (1984)
Empire (Narratives of Empire)(1987)
Hollywood (Narratives of a Golden Age)(1990)
Live from Golgotha (1992)
The Smithsonian Institution (1998)
The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire) (2000)
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories