The Books
Our books are listed below under two main categories: ‘Walking and climbing in the hills’ and ‘Travel, history and literature’. Please click on the title you are interested in to find out more about it.
Walking and climbing in the hills
- A Bit of Grit on Haystacks
- A celebration of Wainwright
- A Cairngorm Chronicle
- Includes a Four Peak circuit in 1904
- A Measure of Munros
- Munros, Munro-bagging and a personal obsession
- A Rope of Writers
- Mountaineering literature in Britain
- Climbing Down
- Long distance walking with a dodgy hip
- Macc and Other Islands
- Explores some remote British isles
- Macc and the Art of Long Distance Walking
- Walks, books, pubs and maps
- Presumptuous Pinnacle Ladies
- Articles from early Pinnacle Club journals
- Mountain Words
- British mountain literature, a bibliography and essays
- Muir and More
- John Muir, his life and walks
- The Central Buttress of Scafell
- Historic essays on a legendary rock climb
- The Life and Times of the Black Pig
- A biography of, and ways up, Ben Macdui
- The Riddle of Sphinx Rock
- Great Gable explored
- Tops of the North, Volume I
- Three Shire Head to Carlisle
- Tops of the North, Volume II
- Carlisle and the Cheviot to the Cat & Fiddle
Travel, history and literature
- A Tale of Two Journeys
- Early 19th-century travel diaries
- Miss Brocklehurst on the Nile
- The diary of a Victorian traveller in Egypt
- The Defending Officer’s Dog
- A Royal Engineer abroad in WWII
- 87 And What Can I Remember
- A rural childhood in the 1870s-1880s
- The Buxton Stage
- A history of theatre in Buxton
- English Rugby, a Game of Two Halves
- A romp through the history of English rugby
- Shakespeare and the Common Man
- A fresh look at some Shakespeare plays
- Mickey Braddock’s Works Do
- Short stories set in a northern textile town