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- Location(s): County Durham, Northumberland, The Pennines
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, it’s not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably...
- Location(s): Coventry
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Part of Comma’s popular ‘Reading the City’ series, offering a literary guide to one of the UK’s most overlooked but fascinating modern cities. Featuring 11 stories by contemporary and classic 20th century writers, including award-winning fantasy author Graham Joyce,...
- Location(s): Nottinghamshire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
I can see her through the glass door. She’s smaller in real life than I expected. She looks the exact opposite of the type of woman that might murder her husband. Everyone’s heard of Simone Fischer. The young mother...
- Location(s): Eyam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1660s
In a wholly original take on the Eyam story, Joanne Burn’s elegant prose, rich in authentic detail, results in a rewarding and timely read — SARAH BURTON, author of ‘The Strange Adventures of H’ Lyrically written, The Hemlock Cure...
- Location(s): Northamptonshire, Great Yarmouth, The Trossachs
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At the grand old age of eighty-two, Esther Saul has just one regret in life. Since her heart got blown to smithereens decades ago, Esther has never been the same. She has barricaded herself in a vine-covered manor house,...
- Location(s): The Pennines
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2010
In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He...
- Location(s): Derbyshire, Eyam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1660s onwards
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666,...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire’s CID with a problem. They have discovered a man’s body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads,...
- Location(s): Shropshire, Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years,...
- Location(s): Nepal, London, Mount Everest, Shropshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s and 2014
Twenty years ago, Hugo and Ash were on top of the world. As the acclaimed rock band Ashbirds they were poised for superstardom. Then Ash went missing, lost in a mountaineering accident, and the lives of Hugo and everyone...
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