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Here is a list of books and guides intended
to provide suggestions for informative and
pleasurable reading. It is offered in the conviction
that a considerable part of a trip's enjoyment
begins before leaving home. Your local library
and book store may have these and other books
of interest about the Cotswolds.
Among those books to be recommended are the
following:
- A
History of Bristol & Gloucestershire by
Brian Smith; Darwen Finlayson Pub., 1972
- A
History of Cheltenham by
Gwen Hart; A Sutton Pub., 1981
- A
Thousand Years of the English Parish by Anthea Jones; Windrush
Press, 2000
- Cotswold
Images by
Alan Sutton and Jon. Hudson; A Sutton Pub.,
1989
- Collected
Poems of Ivor Gurney by
Ivor Gurney; Oxford Univ. Press, 1982
- Collected
Prose by
James E. Flecker; AMS Pr., reprint of 1920
ed.
- Cotswold
Stone Homes by Michael Hill & Sarah Birch; A Sutton
Pub., 1994
- Cotswold
Tales by
Alan Sutton; A Sutton Pub., 1993
- Cotswold
Village by
Joseph A. Gibbs; A Sutton Pub., 1993
- Cotswold
Yeomen and Sheep by
Richard O. Garne; St Mut., 1989
- Discovering
the Cotswolds by
Charles W. Withers; St Mut., 1989
- England ’s
Thousand Best Churches by
Simon Jenkins; Allen Lane/Penguin Press,
1999
- Lark
Rise to Candleford by
Flora Thompson; Viking Penguin, 1974
- Laurie
Lee (The Weell Loved
Stranger) by Valerie Grove; Penguin,
1999
- Selected
Poems of Ivor Gurney by
Ivor Gurney; Oxford Univ. Press, 1990
- The
Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswold by Mary Greensted;
A Sutton Pub., 1993
- The
Cotswold Way : A Walk Through Middle-Earth by
Richard Hayward; Brit. Footpaths, 1992
- The
Cotswolds by
Paul Felix; A Sutton Pub., 1985
- The
Cotswolds by
Brian S. Smith; A Sutton Pub., 1992
- The
Edge of Day by
Laurie Lee; Trafalgar, 1994
Guides
- Cotswolds; AA-Ordnance
Survey Leisure Guide Series; Hunter NJ,
1992
- Cotswolds
Walks;
Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Guides Series;
Seven Hills Book Dist., 1993
- My
Love Affair with England : A Traveler’s Memoir by
Susan A. Toth; Ballantine, 1994
- The
Cotswolds by
Richard Sale; Visitor’s Guide Series,
2nd ed.; Hunter NJ, 1989
Fiction
- Agatha
Raisin and the Quiche of Death and others in the Agatha
Raisin series by M. C. Beaton
- Hons & Rebels by Jessica Mitford
- The
Pursuit of Love and
Love in a Cold
Climate by Nancy Mitford
- Thrush
Green, Winter
in Thrush Green, News
from Thrush Green and others in the Thrush
Green series by Miss (Dora Saint) Read
Note: This list was kindly compiled
by Marion Simplicio, a professional librarian,
whose delightful companionship we have all
enjoyed on our trips, and by Christopher Knowles,
our principal guide in the Cotswolds. |
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