Tag Archives: Novel
The Shepherd Lord Fact or Fiction
A Bank holiday read or a book for Fathers Day, this Faction is an interesting cross between fact and fiction. The historical embellishments are entertaining. Product Description from Amazon ‘Young Henry Clifford, heir to vast estates in the North of … Continue reading
What is it about Scarborough and Fiction
The Last Train to Scarborough is a Jim Stringer Steam Detective novel by Andrew Martin. Hot on the heels of our review of the murders in Scarborough in ‘The Other Child’ by Charlotte Link is another book in Andrew Martin’s … Continue reading
Haworth no Bronte Publicity II PY
When a Haworth based family buy a beautiful vintage Rolls-Royce, little do they know they would get more than they bargained for. Named after the car’s registration II PY this book by a local author is ‘Fast-paced and action-packed, II … Continue reading
Sir Fred Hoyle Astronomer, Cosmologist and Sci-fi Author
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS 24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001 a Yorkshire man who coined the phrase ‘ The Big Bang’ and missed out on not one but two or three Nobel prizes for physics. Fred Hoyle was born … Continue reading
Alan Bennett Facts not Fiction in a Van
What do Ladies in Vans, Smut and Talking Heads have in common? They are works by Alan Bennett, Lady in the Van being his latest DVD to be released. Alan Bennett mini Biography Bennett was born 1934 in Armley the … Continue reading
Lassie the Literary Wonder Dog
Eric Knight the author and creator of Lassie was born on 10 April 1897, in Menston Yorkshire the son of a Quakers family. Lassie first appeared in a magazine story published by Evening Post and was subsequently expanded into as … Continue reading
A Yorkshire Woman of Substance
After selling over 80,000,000 books the Leeds born Barbara Taylor Bradford aged 84, must certainly be a woman of real substance, even though she now spends most of her money living in the USA. It is 30 years since the … Continue reading
My Favorite Yorkshire Fiction
The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale – ‘January, 1916, and the rooftops of Leeds creak with the weight of the winter’s snows. William Redmond, soon to join the Chapeltown Rifles, wanders with his younger brother Samuel through the old haunts of … Continue reading
Keighley Detective Series by Lesley Horton
Twisted Tracks is the 5th and latest offering about Inspector Handford or now Detective Chief Inspector Hanford and his Keighley based team. With an escaped convict recaptured in the lake at East Riddlesden Hall through the angst and envy of … Continue reading
The Yorkshire Pudding Club
The time was when if someone said they were in t’club it was not unusual to ask ‘Christmas, Pudding or Workingmen’s?’ Who would have answered the Book Club but that would be more appropriate for Milly Johnsons ‘literary’ offering. From … Continue reading