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Pig Iron

Pig Iron
  • Author(s): Benjamin Myers
  • Location(s): Durham, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his bare-knuckle boxer father, King of the Gypsies, Mac Wisdom, overshadows his life. His new job as an ice cream man should offer freedom, but instead...

The Quality of Mercy

The Quality of Mercy
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Durham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s

This novel stands alone, but is a sequel to Sacred Hunger. The book picks up in the Spring of 1767 and interweaves several lives, in the coal fields and in Durham. It is the spring of 1767, two years...

Dark Room Secrets

Dark Room Secrets
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): Durham
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): 2021

When Kim goes to old friend, Sidney’s, photography studio to start a new food styling contract she meets his new assistant, Alex. Kim is catapulted from her mournful existence into an explosive romantic relationship with Alex. Sidney, however, is...

Mother Naked

Mother Naked
  • Author(s): Glen James Brown
  • Location(s): Durham
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1434

The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and the story he’s come to tell is the Legend of...

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