Geoffrey Lewis

• Aug-2014
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In The Longest Trench, Geoffrey Lewis tells a story of the canals between August 1914 and November 1918; the story of two families, working their boats through the years of conflict, fighting for victory in their own way in the world they knew best. ...

• Nov-2011
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The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of twelve stories set in the heroic age of the Oghuz Turks, a nomadic tribe who had journeyed westwards through Central Asia from the ninth century onwards. The stories are peopled by characters as bizarre as t...

• Mar-2011
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This second canal story for younger readers picks up the tale of young Jess Carter where the first book left off. We go with Jess and Luke Kain to Uxbridge in the spring of 1939, where their new narrowboat is being built, and then travel with them...

• Jun-2010
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In a tale to appeal to young and old alike Jess Carter & the Oil Boat takes us from the industrial gloom of the Black Country to the wide expanse of the Manchester Ship Canal on board a horse-drawn tanker narrowboat in the spring of 1939. The fami...

• Apr-2009
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This third volume of the Michael Baker series picks up the story of the canals from 1948: The reality of life on Britain? s nationalised waterways is becoming apparent to the families who work the narrowboats on the Grand Union Canal. More changes th...

• Apr-2008
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In this sequel to A Boy Off The Bank, second book in the Michael Baker series, the familiar characters of Michael and Ginny, Alby Baker and the other boating families continue plying their trade in peacetime Britain, despite the deteriorating stat...

• Jul-2006
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First book of the Michael Baker series, A Boy Off The Bank tells a story of England's canals in wartime, of the pressure and pain, the humour and resilience of the boating people. Both tragic and heart-warming, it charts the progress of an arduous...

• Dec-2005
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Alice, the author's mother, is mentioned frequently in this account of his book. A disciplinarian to no small degree, she did her best in the trying pre-war times of unemployment. A fair amount of the author's recollections concerns the ups and downs...

• Mar-2005
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In Starlight Geoffrey Lewis tells a tale of schoolboy friendship set against the backdrop of the Oxford Canal in the days when the commercial trade was in decline, the canal itself threatened with closure. It is a story whose mood ranges from hea...