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  • The Fresh and the Salt

    The Story of the Solway

    by Ann Lingard ...
    "Beautiful, intensely visual prose, born from deep intimacy with subtle borderlands: land and sea, England and Scotland, people and environments." —David Gange, author of The Frayed Atlantic EdgeFirths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Embalmer's Book of Recipes

    by Ann Lingard ...
    People, flowers, memories: how do we preserve the past?Set in the Lake District, the shifting mosaic of the narrative explores life, love and prejudice through three very different women: Ruth, a taxidermist; Madeleine, a widowed sheep-farmer; and Lisa, a mathematician. As Lisa is drawn into the group it becomes clear that the other women have strange secrets: Ruth’s 'blogs' have an increasingly ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • Seaside Pleasures

    by Ann Lingard ...
    When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House, he little guesses that he is about to step into the minefield of his family’s past and recent history . . . Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; and malacologist and parasitologist, Elizabeth Wilson.Their stories – of obsessional loves and conflicting beliefs – are inextricably ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Lifetimes

    Personal Stories from the Lothian Cohorts

    by Ann Lingard ...
    In June 1932 and June 1947, nearly all 11-year-olds who were attending school in Scotland sat a test of verbal reasoning. In the past decade, more than 1,500 of those people – now in older age – were recruited to the Lothian Birth Cohorts 1921 and 1936. The rich scientific data from those students have contributed to our knowledge about why some people's thinking skills age better than others. ... Read more

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    'A very well written book about geology and geological history' Sir David Attenborough, The Times'I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past. From Paddington Station a Great Western locomotive took me on a journey westwards from London further and further back into geological time, from the age of mammals to the age of trilobites...'So begins this enthralling exploration of time and place in ... Read more

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  • My Secret Diary

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  • The Seafarers

    A Journey Among Birds

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    *WINNER* of the Saltire First Book of the Year 2019 / Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of charismatic Arctic terns, elegant fulmars and stoic eiders, to name just a few. Often found in the most remote and dramatic reaches of our shores, these colonies are landscapes shaped not by us but by the ... Read more

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