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 Rebecca
Laughton has the definitive book for all smallholders..........
SURVIVING
AND THRIVING ON THE LAND
(How
to use your time and energy to run a successful smallholding)
read
more..........
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Rodney Legg
visited The Book Shop Bridport to sign copies of his "Book
of Bridport"
This deeply researched book
of the Town, Harbour & West Bay is brilliantly presented
and contains many historic photographs.
.............THE
BOOK OF BRIDPORT
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 Ian
Lowis
- A
senior oil analyst travelled all over the UK, Europe &
North America. Ian now resides locally and has published this
very compelling book...........
.................'SLIPPERY
OIL TALES'
info......
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Local
character and autor DaveMort has just launched a new
novel, a dark satire on post war US foreign and domestic policy:
"Play
it Again Uncle Sam"
this
and his first novel:
Money For Old Rope
are
available through 'The
Book Shop' .......
More
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Local
Autor Tim Nickels stories range from slipstream to
surreal to science fiction of the most speculative sort. Some
are, frankly, all but incomprehensible, while others tickle
the edge of your imagination with elusive promises of meaning.
The
21 stories in this collection are peculiarly English in their
style.............................
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The English Soil
Society
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VILLAGE
VOICES: FARMING FAMILIES
Compiled and edited by Andrew Pastor
Andrew
Pastor has recorded interviews with local people living
between Lewesdon Hill in West Dorset and Clapton in South
Somerset for the past two years. This is the first of two
books setting out his collection of interviews. .................................
more
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 John
Payne came
to The Book Shop to sign coppies of his new book - 'The West
Country: A Cultural History'
This
book not only explores Dorset, but it covers the other of
the five south-western counties of England: Wiltshire,Somerset,
Devon and Cornwall.
more
info...........
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 Lucy
Pinney has been delighted to see her book based on experiences
of the Dorset countryside beat Harry Potter in a top ten of
sales in Bridport.
Her
new book Country Wife held the number one spot in the top
ten best sellers at the Bookshop for two weeks.
.........................LUCY
PINNEY 
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Local
author Harry Poole who's books on Powerstock
and the surrounding villages are no longer available
in print can still be read.
The
Book Shop
is now making them available for you to read on this
site: www.dorsetbooks.com/harry
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Dorset
Perspective
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an anthology of contemporary Dorset Poetry
Following
on the success of the three previous years' Children's Anthologies,
when when the winning entries were collated from each of the
three Young People's Competitions, aimed at encouraging children
to write and read poetry, it was thought this year a new idea
could be tried out: adult poetry inspired by Dorset's unique
contours.....................................
more details and poetry.........

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