Wainwright Resurrected!

Just a quicky to let you know that Alfred Wainwright's series of seven pictorial guides to the Lakeland Fells have been reissued by the new publishers Frances Lincoln and should be out there now.

The series was discontinued by previous publisher Michael Joseph earlier this year leading to fears that the unique books would disappear from the shelves, but the new publishers stepped in and the titles are even being printed in the man's home town of Kendal.

God only knows what the man himself would have made of the new-fangled 'interweb' but the good news is that Frances Lincoln are selling the seven reprinted titles direct from their web site - prices at £11.99 for a hard cover are actually down on the previous editions - together with an exclusive special offer. If you order all seven titles direct, you'll get a 10 per-cent discount. Click here for more information.

Three more titles are due out in June by the way, with Wainwright's memoirs scheduled for appearance later in the year and his Pennine Way Companion mooted for 2004.

Meanwhile, if you're a major Wainwright fan, you need to check out the Wainwright Society , an organisation formed last year to venerate all things AW and which recently held a 'Wainwright Walk'. Not sure what the notoriously curmudgeonly old git would have made of that...