This is an index to a growing selection of Reviews of Books
featuring Derbyshire, mainly from The Peak Advertiser.
Reviews by Julie Bunting are reproduced with kind permission.
This listing is in order of publication (when known), and covers reviews published between
28th January 2002 and the end of the year.
Baker, Ernest - Moors, Crags and Caves of the High Peak and Neighbourhood.
Published by Halsgrove.
Kilburn, Terence - Joseph Whitworth: Toolmaker.
Available in limited numbers from The Joseph Whitworth Centre in Darley Dale.
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Review of ‘Joseph Whitworth: Toolmaker’
(Peak Advertiser, 4th November 2002).
Downes, Suzanne - The Devil Drives a Jaguar
Published by Country Books.
ISBN 1-898941-75-0
Fiction, but relates to Local History and may provide background information or interest.
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Review of ‘The Devil Drives a Jaguar’
(Peak Advertiser, 21st October 2002).
Nicholls, Paul - Buyer Beware!
Published by Country Books.
ISBN 1-898941-76-9
Not relating to Family History, but may provide background information or interest.
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Review of ‘Buyer Beware!’
(Peak Advertiser, 23rd September 2002).
Pearson, John - Stags and Serpents
Published by Country Books of Little Longstone.
Hale, Don - Town without Pity (with Marika Huns & Hamish McGregor).
Published by Century; Random House, April 2002.
ISBN 0 780712 615303
Not relating to Family History, but may provide background information or interest.
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Review of ‘Town without Pity’, by Tom Bates.
Rotherham, Ian D - 'The Flora Sheffielder', Volume 1 (with Janet Alton), and The Peak District Journal of Natural History and Archaeology, Volume 2
(with Melvyn Jones: Volume 1 was reviewed on 11th September 2000).
Published by Wildtrack Publishing of Sheffield. Not relating to Family History, but may provide background information or interest.
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Review of ‘'The Flora Sheffielder'’
(Peak Advertiser, 8th April 2002)
Bunting, Julie - Images of England: Matlock and Matlock Bath.
Published by Tempus. 2002.