Books about Somerset

978-1-899383-78-8      £2.99    Order info

Are sightings of big cats in places like Brassknocker Hill, Exmoor, the Brendon Hills, the Quantocks and the Mendips to be taken seriously? Chris Moiser weighs the evidence and reveals some startling facts.

978-1-899383-94-8      £2.99   Order info

Cob and thatch are archetypal West Country building materials. This book examines their history, and contains interviews with today's practitioners of these ancient crafts. Colour throughout.

978-1-899383-25-2       £4.99   Order info   

Somerset is a rich hunting ground for the ghost enthusiast. Throughout its million acres there are scores of places, including Sedgemoor, Bath and Glastonbury, with ghostly associations.

978-1-899383-63-4       £2.99     Order info   

Sally Jones searches out legendary places and walks in the ancient footsteps of Neolithic man, the Doones, St Carantoc, the Duke of Monmouth, St Joseph of Arimathea and even Jesus himself.

978-1-899383-59-7         £1.99   Order info

Accounts of hauntings, strange sightings, life of King Arthur by people under hypnotic regression, and the infamously polygamous Agapemonites.

978-1-899383-76-4     £2.99

Expert food researcher Carolyn Martin pools the wisdom of cooks across the centuries to bring the best of Somerset's recipes to the modern kitchen.

978-1-899383-67-2         £2.99     Order info

Restaurant owner Margaret Wilson follows up her successful Devonshire cookbook with a range of vegetarian recipes using local ingredients.

978-1-89938341-2      £2.99   Order info

A series of 16 paintings representing the history, landscape and mythology of Glastonbury, with brief textual notes. Full colour throughout.

978-1-899383-82-5   £4.99   Order info

In 1675 John Ogilby, a cartographic publisher, mapped for the very first time the highways of England and Wales. Paul White discovered that in the West Country most of this ancient pre-turnpike road system has, amazingly, survived – as lanes, footpaths and other rights of way. This book contains Ogilby's original maps (approximately 800 miles of roads in Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall) and, for Devon and Cornwall, provides an analysis of the routes as they appear today in OS maps and on the ground. Essential for local historians, map enthusiasts and anyone interested in history who wishes to explore these 'roads that time forgot'.