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)
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Memoirs and BiographiesThe Police and Me
£12.00Published May 2017
220 pages
Illustrated with 12 colour black & white photographs
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HistoryColourful Characters of Cumbria’s Eden Valley
£10.00Published April 2015
112 pages
Illustrated with 47 colour and black & white photographs and maps
In stock
AuthorJohn Sharpe
