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 | Book - One Summer On The Cut Ref: 1732
by Graham Beard.It's 1964, and on England's forgotten canals a few boating families are still at work, their way of life hardly changed in a hundred years.Mike, fascinated by the canal and the boats, enters this strange and secret world. Making friends with Kit, a boy off the canal, Mike experiences the boaters' tough outdoor life and learns the lore of the waterways. Share Mike's exciting voyage of adventure with Kit.Soft back. 128 pages, 7" x 9¾" approx. Illustrated with black and white drawings by the author.
Price: £7.75
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 | Book - The Wench is Dead Ref: 753
by Colin Dexter.An Inspector Morse mystery. The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal on 22nd June 1859. On a Saturday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse - though very much alive - was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, where treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced successful.As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation and trial that followed Joanna's death, and becomes convinced that the two men hanged for her murder were innocent.Softback, 237 pages. 4¼" x 7" approx.
Price: £6.80
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 | Book - The River Folk Ref: 523
by Margaret Dickenson.Mary Ann Clarke is the pretty daughter of a wife beating drunk.'Battling Bessie Ruddick' takes her under her wing and into the heart of her bustling family.Growing into an attractive young woman, her affection for Dan, Bessie's son, is returned when she becomes a skipper's wife. Life aboard ship is not for her and only the arrival of a daughter, Lizzie, seems to hold the marriage together.. After her mother's disappearance, it is up to Lizzie, with her love of the river, to help her father.Then her life starts to follow the same pattern as her mother's.....Softback, 452 pages. 4½" x 7" approx.
Price: £5.80
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 | Book - Going Dutch Ref: 1859
by Katie Fforde.Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. She's not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited.Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as the Big Day approaches, her cold feet show no signs of warming up - and accepting Jo's offer of refuge aboard 'The Three Sisters' seems the only alternative.Soft back. 418 pages. 130mm x 197mm approx.
Price: £6.80
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 | Book - Fen Tigers Ref: 700
by Shirley Ginger.Attractive Victoria Travers, owner of a hire fleet, faces a smooth, secure future running the family firm. What she doesn't foresee is a corpse surfacing in the marina and roving reporter Richard Marshall walking into her life the same week.Caught up in a web of deceit and crime, they struggle to disentangle an international plot which leads them deep into the Fens on board one of her own boats.Softback, 170 pages. 5¾" x 8¼" approx.
Price: £5.35
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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. 5" x 7¾" approx.
Price: £6.80
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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. 5" x 7¾" approx.
Price: £7.75
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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. 129mm x 197mm.
Price: £7.75
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