Forbidden to walk because of his illness, Charles Fergusson is growing up a spoiled sickly child. He dreams of becoming a plant hunter, and of finding the fabled Blue Poppy which grew in his grandmother’s garden in Sikkim, but it seems that he will be trapped forever in the dark house in the Cumbrian fells.

That is until the feisty, disrespectful Betty comes back to work as a servant at Bambeck Hall. This fiery red-haired girl will turn Charles’s world upside down, forcing him to break away from his stultifying prison. But Charles and Betty have a secret history unknown to either of them.

Charles’s journey will lead him to the great Himalayas, but will he find the Blue Poppy and discover his true destiny?

A story of love and tragedy set against the background of impossible odds, the French Resistance and the wartime landscape of France.

Finding Myrddin, Angela Locke’s third novel, is set on a marginal farm in Cumbria. What is the power which draws a young sheep farmer to a mysterious river on his land, back to the scene of a tragedy in his past and the secret of his true identity?

A Cumbrian story (mainly for children, but allegorical and very popular with adults) of a fell farmer faced with modern changes to his traditional way of life. Nominated in Top Ten Best Christmas Books by The Sunday Times and widely reviewed as one of the first books of its kind to use dialect.

Mister Zeus, King of the Gods, returns to the valley, where he once lent a mischievous cloud, Napoleon, to old famer Mullett to help him with his weather.

Angela travelled from her isolated English valley in the Lake District to Nepal just before the Maoist unrest to research a different book, and found herself on a journey of discovery which would change her life.

A biography of the experiences of a profoundly deaf woman, Jenny Harmer, and her hearing dog, Connie.

Sequel to Search Dog showing through real-life accounts how all rescue services interlock during a rescue, and widening subject to include more Lake District and Northern dogs.

This is a moving and anecdotal account of Sam, a Labrador rescue dog, which works as part of the Search and Rescue Dog Association team. He mainly operates in the Yorkshire Dales but achieved fame when he and another were flown to El Salvador to find earthquake victims.

A celebration of the sacred island of Iona, exploring the landscape, the numinous, myths and legends through poetry, after the author s 10 years extended time on the island teaching creative writing and evoking the spirit of Iona.