Willow Island Editions

written and illustrated by Richard Bell

Walks around Horbury

Five circular walks in the Calder Valley around this West Yorkshire town.
(This booklet has no ISBN, so is not available through bookshops, except for a few local outlets: Armitages Garden Centre, Shelley; Orchard Bookshop, Denby Dale; Rickaro Bookshop, Horbury; Tourist Information, Wakefield)

Paperback £1.95

Walks around Newmillerdam

Six circular walks around Newmillerdam Country Park, south east of Wakefield, and in the countryside beyond the park boundaries.
(This booklet has no ISBN, so is not available through bookshops, except for a few local outlets: Armitages Garden Centre, Shelley; Orchard Bookshop, Denby Dale; Rickaro Bookshop, Horbury; Tourist Information, Wakefield)

Paperback £1.95

High Peak Drifter

'a fresh look at the Peak District National Park in just short of 100 pages of sheer magic'

Tony Pogson, Huddersfield Examiner

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Paperback £6 (postage £2)

Rough Patch

A sketchbook from the wilder side of the garden

' . . . earthy through and through. You can feel the garden, the weather, watch the wildlife and smell the seasons through its pages.'

Liz Wright,Smallholder

'wonderful pictures of everyday things in the garden'

Daily Telegraph

'well-observed watercolours of plants and bird and pond life through the year'

Sunday Times

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Paperback
Low Price, now: £8.95 (postage £2)

West Yorkshire

Horbury
Ossett
Sandal Castle
Thornes Park
Waterton's Park
Coxley Valley

Malham Magic (Yorkshire Dales)

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Sushi Sketchbooks

'freshly packaged minibooks of his sketchcrawls through England' Danny Gregory, www.dannygregory.com

Mist over Langsett
This Distant Northern Sea
Dales Way Diary
Saints & Serpents
The Normanton Chronicles
Four Corners of Horbury

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Sketchbook Sushi

Some of these titles are now out of print. I'm hoping to launch a new sketchbook in 2008.

Four Corners of Horbury
'stone steps, hidden tunnels, bridge arches and a 'canyon' of a railway cutting' Read more

£4.99

A 7 day, 82 mile walk through the Yorkshire Dales. Read more

£4.99

Saints and Serpents
serpentine forms in a cottage garden, on the beach and in the carvings in the medieval church. Read more

£4.99

Mist over Langsett
a 3 day, 40 mile walk from the Calder Valley to the moors of the Peak District. Read more

£3.99

This Distant Northern Sea
'He draws commuters, the view out the train window, herring gulls, fishing boats and villages on the the shoreline'. Read more

£3.99

The Normanton Chronicles
'Victorian civic pride, now a little worn at the seams, sits comfortably alongside today's gaudy brashness.' Read more

£4.99

West Yorkshire Pocket Guides


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Grandma's Guides; 50,000+ copies sold

'So easy for Granny to surf the net' Read more
£2.95

'order groceries, pick up a present, donate to a charity or track down a bargain.' Read more
£2.95

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Postage is £2 and any order over £25 is post free anywhere in the world.
You should be able to order most of these books (with the exception of the two walks books) via any U.K. bookseller; please make a note of the ISBN which can be found on the webpage for each title (follow 'more' link). Rickaro Bookshop in Horbury, West Yorkshire stocks a complete range of my books: e-mail Richard Knowles he delivers worldwide.

For all enquiries please e-mail me:
Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk