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The first four books are a series with DI David Russell. Only the second one, 'Strangers', has canal content, but the other three have been included for completeness. |
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 | Book - Flashback Ref: 2308
by Geoffrey Lewis.A ten year old girl is missing, on her way to visit a friend after school. Absconded or abducted? D.I. David Russell is drafted in to begin the background investigation.Soft back. 287 pages. 12.8cms x 19.7cms approx.
Price: £6.99
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 | Book - Strangers Ref: 970
by Geoffrey Lewis.The Metropolitan Police have smashed a major counterfeiting gang - but the ringleaders have escaped. And Ron Walker has a problem: How do you protect your family when it is being threatened by a cold soulless killer?.As the forgers try desperately to re-establish themselves in the provinces, David Russell's investigation becomes a race against time, both to convict the men and to save Walker's grandson from the fate which is stalking him on the idyllic highway of the Grand Union Canal.Soft back. 279 pages. 12.9cms x 19.8cms approx.
Price: £6.99
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 | Book - Winter's Tale Ref: 2309
by Geoffrey Lewis.A young man is dead, shot down outside a night-club. All the evidence points to his girlfriend - his murder the result of a lovers' quarrel. But D.I. David Russell is uncomfortable with this conclusion.Soft back. 298 pages. 12.9cms x 19.8cms approx.
Price: £6.99
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 | Book - Cycle Ref: 2310
by Geoffrey Lewis.The callous murder of a schoolboy has lain unsolved for twelve years: D.I. David Russell remembers the case - he was a youthful detective sergeant at the time. Now, a routine enquiry from India betrays a tenuous link with the boy's death.Soft back. 270 pages. 12.8cms x 19.8cms approx.
Price: £7.99
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 | Book - Starlight Ref: 1791
by Geoffrey Lewis.In this book Geoffrey tells a tale of schoolboy friendship set against the backdrop of the Oxford Canal in the days when the commercial trade was in decline, and the canal itself threatened with closure.In a story whose mood ranges from heartwarming humour to unbearable poingnancy, he conjures up the world of the 1950s; factual events and real characyers flit past in the background as he leads the reader through the long heat wave of the summer of 1955.Soft back. 159 pages. 11cms x 18cms approx.
Price: £6.99
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 | Book - A Boy Off The Bank Ref: 1651
by Geoffrey Lewis.Ten year old Michael Thompson has had enough. Mentally and physically abused by his drunken father, treated like a skivvy by his mother. On a bitter cold night in January 1940 he sets out to commit suicide.This book tells the story of England's canals in wartime. Tragic and heart-warming, it charts the progress of a job becoming ever more difficult, seen from the perspective of a narrowboat's back cabin.Soft back. 224 pages. 12.9cms x 19.8cms approx.
Price: £7.99
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 | Book - A Girl At The Tiller Ref: 1809
by Geoffrey Lewis.In this sequel to 'A Boy Off The Bank', the familiar characters of Michael and Ginny, Alby Baker, and other boating families continue their lives in peacetime Britain, plying their trade despite the deteriorating state of the waterways.And new faces appear, one of whom is to have a greater impact on the crew of the Sycamore and the Antrim than they could ever guess...Soft back. 248 pages. 12.9cms x 19.7cms approx.
Price: £7.99
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 | Book - The New Number One Ref: 1963
by Geoffrey Lewis.Continuing the story of Michael, Harriet, Ginny, Carrie and Alby Baker as they carry on their lives, coping with ever more difficult conditions as the demand for their services slowly declines.Soft back. 240 pages. 12.9cms x 19.9cms approx.
Price: £7.99
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 | Book - Cattle & Sheep & Boats Ref: 2542
by Geoffrey Lewis.This book effectively picks up the stories from the Michael Baker trilogy about life on England's canals. Michael and family have moved to Australia but thay still keep in touch with friends etc. in England. Follow their stories over the next 30 years.Soft back. 282 pages. 12.8cms x 19.9cms approx.
Price: £7.99
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 | Book - Jess Carter and the Oil Boat Ref: 2224
by Geoffrey Lewis.This is Geoffrey's first book intended for younger readers. It takes us from the industrial gloom of the Black Country to the wide expanse of the Manchester Ship Canal, via the pastoral landscapes of Shropshire and Cheshire, on board a horse-drawn tanker boat of Thomas Clayton (Oldbury) Ltd. Set in the spring of 1939.Soft back. 144 pages. 12.8cms x 19.8cms approx.
Price: £6.99
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 | Book - Jess Carter and the Bolinder Ref: 2437
by Geoffrey Lewis.This second canal story for younger readers picks up the tale of young Jess Carter where the first book left off. We go with Jess and Luke south to Uxbridge, where their new boat is being built, and then travel with them as they make their way back towards Birmingham and the Thomas Clayton Ltd yard at Oldbury.As well as having mechanical difficulties, they also meet a friendly and vaguely mysterious Dutchman, travelling the canals for his Amsterdam newspaper.Soft back. 135 pages. 12.9cms x 19.8cms approx.
Price: £6.99
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 | Book - Thunderchild Ref: 2313
by Geoffrey Lewis.A young boy, living quietly in a remote rural village. A chance encounter with another youngster, a day of youthful exuberance in the nearby river - and an unexpected, unprovoked attack by daemons. So begins Gabriel's adventure.It is a quest which takes him far from home on a journey fraught with peril from both human and magical assailants, and on a voyage of discovery into his own unrealised powers.'Thunderchild' is the first part of a children's fantasy trilogy, but is a story complete in itself. (No canal content)Soft back. 223 pages. 12.8cms x 19.7cms approx.
Price: £9.99
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