{"product_id":"lancashire-folk-9780764349836","title":"Lancashire Folk","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Mel herself says, I think I can safely say that Lancashire Folk is the most comprehensive collection of Lancashire weirdness ever to be in print. Melanie certainly has gone through her extensive collection and pulled together a comprehensive and engaging book on the area. The book hits the right notes from the start, Mel's contents are alphabetical by town, covering 155 locations and gives the reader a good format to follow and dip in and out of. The introduction is well written [and] it's interesting to see how Mel has pulled the information together from a wide variety of sources and written them up in a nice style that's factual and easy to read. Touching on the Pendle area Melanie covers the well know accounts of the witches but I was also interested to read about Apronful Hill where the devil is supposed to have stood throwing rocks at Clitheroe Castle and also the tale of Fox's Well, a spring found by George Fox, who climbed Pendle Hill while under instruction from God. Readers of my previous book reviews will know that I'm a believer in stating sources as much as possible and giving clear references. Melanie's book doesn't disappoint, at the back she gives her bibliography and a topical index for all the accounts again, before listing OS Map references and postcodes (with a note to watch for private land and not to trespass!). I thought I would miss not having images throughout the book but actually having them at the back in a small gallery makes them less intrusive and I like that format.  Ian Topham, MysteriousBritain.co.uk April 2016\u003cbr\u003eLancashire Folk enjoyed a full page feature in Lancaster Guardian's 'Nostalgia' section, 19th May 2016!\u003cbr\u003eLancashire Folk enjoyed a double-page spread in the Lancashire Evening Post newspaper on Wednesday 18th May!\u003cbr\u003eMelanie Warren was interviewed on influential US station Darkness Radio on March 18 2016.","brand":"Schiffer Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865843741015,"sku":"9780764349836","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780764349836.jpg?v=1722275837","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lancashire-folk-9780764349836","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}