JOHN SHARPE studied Classics at Durham University and followed National Service in the Army with a working life in the police. A native of Cumbria, he has lived in the county’s Eden Valley since the 1960s. His speciality as a biographer is the unsung hero – or villain. The Eden Valley is a rich mine of worthy material.
Books by John Sharpe: John Metcalfe Carleton: Georgian Rake of the Eden Valley and The Workman Brothers: English Pioneers of the American West (shortlisted for the 2014 Lake District Book of the Year Award)
JOHN SHARPE studied Classics at Durham University and followed National Service in the Army with a working life in the police. A native of Cumbria, he has lived in the county’s Eden Valley since the 1960s. His speciality as a biographer is the unsung hero – or villain. The Eden Valley is a rich mine of worthy material.
Books by John Sharpe: John Metcalfe Carleton: Georgian Rake of the Eden Valley and The Workman Brothers: English Pioneers of the American West (shortlisted for the 2014 Lake District Book of the Year Award)
