Richard Guise: 4 books
A Wiggly Way Through England
Wandering the watershed in search of history, characters and cakes
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Richard Guise follows a unique 450-mile route across England on foot and on his trusty bike Tetley. His guide is the wiggly line that divides rivers flowing west from those flowing east, a choice that takes him over rolling downlands, along windy ridges, through remote villages, across ancient battlefields,...
Lead Us Not Into Trent Station
Memories from Long Eaton and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The world I first knew was small and orderly. And so was I.
So begins 'Lead Us Not Into Trent Station', Richard Guise's popular memoir of childhood in a Derbyshire town of the 1950s and '60s.
Mr Handlebar in the Market Place, sneezing thurifer's at St Laurence's church, 'Mad Ron' at...
Limerick Gazetteer of Europe
including Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Contains over 150 original limericks.
Includes a detailed guide on how to write a good limerick -- advice apparently ignored by the author.
What they said...
“Brilliant!” Doggerel Today “Appalling!” Journal of Contemporary British Verse “Evidently...
Neddytown
A History of Draycott and Church Wilne
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
The Derbyshire villages of Draycott and Church Wilne have dozed quietly beside the left bank of the Derwent for more than a thousand years, barely registering a mention even in the history of the area. But have things really been as quiet as that? What about the case of the dodgy 18th-century...