Darlington, Terry – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:45:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Darlington, Terry – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Narrow Dog To Wigan Pier https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/narrow-dog-to-wigan-pier/ Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/narrow-dog-to-wigan-pier/ At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November, life was looking dull and short on surprises.
Then their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one and soon headed north in the Phyllis May 2 – to Liverpool, Lancaster, the Pennines and Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey, and alongside it the story of his life and his marriage and his dog Jim, with his broken ear like a flat cap, and Monica’s dog Jess, known with heartbreaking reason as the Flying Catastrophe.
Funny, affecting and beautifully told, this is a story that brims with incident and excitement, and is full of the famous and fascinating people the Darlingtons have met – a story of an adventurous life well lived.

]]> Narrow Dog To Carcassonne https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/narrow-dog-to-carcassonne/ Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/narrow-dog-to-carcassonne/ ‘WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE…’

When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim.

On the Phyllis May you dive through six-foot waves in the Channel, are swept down the terrible Rhône, and fight for your life in a storm among the flamingos of the Camargue.
You meet the French nobody meets – poets, captains, historians, drunks, bargees, men with guns, scholars, madmen – they all want to know the people on the painted boat and their narrow dog.
You visit the France nobody knows Рthe backwaters of Flanders, the canals beneath Paris, the heavenly Yonne, the lost Burgundy Canal, the islands of the Sa̫ne, and the forbidden ways to the Mediterranean.

Aliens, dicks, trolls, vandals, gongoozlers, killer fish and the walking dead all stand between our three innocents and their goal – many-towered Carcassonne.

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