As part of Oxfam’s Bookfest Cicerone author Mark Richards will be in the Keswick store on the evening of 13th July giving a talk about his walking life and the Lakeland Fells in particular.
Mark’s transition from full-time farmer to full-time outdoor writer has been a gradual one. In 1973, with the direct encouragement of Alfred Wainwright, he wrote his first walking guide to the Cotswold Way. Since then he has indulged a pleasure in exploring rural Lakeland by creating an eight volume Lakeland Fellranger series which covers every fell in the National Park.
Mark’s recent work includes leaflets to the Stagecoach bus services in Lakeland under the title From A to B to SEE. He has also appeared on TV with Julia Bradbury in Wainwright Walks and Coast to Coast.
For many years visitors to our website have enjoyed the ability to search inside our books, a fantastic feature that allows you to be more informed about a book’s contents and whether it’s right for you before you buy. Full digitisation of our books is the logical next step, and eBook purchases are now available to buy and instantly download. Most of our books are included, and we’re aiming to make as many available to buy electronically as we can.
Roger is an award-winning photographer, who lives in Hexham, just 20 minutes from the place that has become his abiding passion – Hadrian’s Wall. Roger embraced photography professionally after a career in business and then as a lecturer. He has captured the contrasting moods and timeless scenes of Hadrian’s Wall from coast to coast, and is responsible, amongst many achievements, for the iconic scenes on the side of Northern Rail trains; the pictures used for marketing Hadrian’s Wall and the British Museum’s Hadrian exhibition in 2008, and of course the book 
