Books

Portrait of the Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is a landscape of infinite and fascinating variety. The coastline is amazingly diverse, from rocky outcrops and high cliffs in the west to the vast sandy beaches in the east so favoured by families with their buckets and spades. Yachting, an intrinsic part of island life, attracts many hundreds of thousands of visitors a year and boosts the economy commensurately.

The Isle ofWight gives the opportunity to view and photograph this sporting and leisure activity from close quarters. Inland, the downs of the island provide stunning vistas and a healthy activity into the bargain. With its historical sites such as Carisbrooke Castle, the Town Halls of Brading and Newtown together with the characterful towns of Ryde, Sandown, Ventnor, Newport and of course Cowes, one never tires of the island.

All this and more is captured in over 140 evocative and beautiful images, showing the Isle of Wight at its colourful best.

ISBN 978 1 84114 957 8, hardback, 214x230mm, 144 pages. Published May 2009.

£14.95

The Isle of Wight Complete Guide

Isle of Wight, The Complete Guide is the result of Roy Brinton's determination to write a guide book worthy of the Island on which he was born and has spent much of his working life. In this he has succeeded magnificently. Scholarly, readable, occasionally amusing, often surprising and unexpected, full of fascinating detail, yet firmly based on meticulous research, there is hardly a paragraph that does not bear the hallmark of an author who surely knows as much about the Isle of Wight as anyone.

128 pages. Alphabetical Gazetteer to every village and town on the entire Island, cross-referenced to a full colour map. 14 Special interest sections. Town Maps. 300 illustrations. 6 pages of colour plates. Supplement listing all places open with opening times, charges and phone numbers.

£12.99