Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

In Bitter Chill

In Bitter Chill
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins’s mother commits suicide. Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her...

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series
  • Author(s): J Mary Masters
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Derbyshire, London, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, this is the heartbreaking story of a young girl in love, the secret she must never reveal and the family who betrayed her trust. It’s 1942 and the world is...

Little Monsters

Little Monsters
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When I was thirteen, my father killed my mother . . . How do you recover from something like that? Carol never quite does. Sent to live with her aunt, who barely tolerates her presence, Carol is grief-stricken and...

Mr Darcy’s Guide to Pemberley

Mr Darcy’s Guide to Pemberley
  • Author(s): J B Grantham
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): 181

One “had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.” From its very first appearance 200 years ago on the pages of Jane Austen’s...

Mr Darcy’s Secret

Mr Darcy’s Secret
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Regency

One dark secret can completely ruin a bright future… After capturing the heart of the most eligible bachelor in England, Elizabeth Bennet believes her happiness is complete-until the day she unearths a stash of anonymous, passionate love letters that...

Reservoir 13

Reservoir 13
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as...

Running out of Road

Running out of Road
  • Author(s): Cath Staincliffe
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. With the police in hot pursuit. Scarlett is dancing in the school talent show tomorrow. Nana, who Scarlett lives with since...

Sky Dancer

Sky Dancer
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joe has always loved the moorlands above his home: the wildness, the freedom, the peace. But since his father died, everything has changed, and the moors are no longer a place of refuge. Now the whole community is divided...

The Black Madonna of Derby

The Black Madonna of Derby
  • Author(s): Joanna Czechowska
  • Location(s): Derby, Krakow, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

Three generations of a Polish immigrant family are living in Derby in 1964 when the grandmother decides she wants to return to her homeland to make peace with her relatives and await death. Her war-traumatised daughter remains in Derby...

The Fell

The Fell
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021/22

‘A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting’ – Emma Donoghue ‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be’ – The Times At dusk on a November evening in...

Refine Location

Locations in Derbyshire

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now