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Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county

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Born in York, Kate’s first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year. Since then, she has published another six novels, one play, and one collection of short stories. I bought Haytime in the Yorkshire Dales edited by Don Gamble & Tanya St. Pierre some time ago and still love to dip into the pictures and descriptions of our wonderful flower-rich hay meadows. It covers their biodiversity, traditional farming methods and how they’ve inspired creative people for generations. This Barnsley born author wrote the 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave, on which the 1969 Ken Loach film Kes was based, he also co-wrote the script with Loach and Tony Garnett. Both the book and the film provide a portrait of life in the mining areas of Yorkshire. He also wrote two other collaborations with Loach which were adapted into films: Yorkshire has been inspirational to a number of world famous playwrights. We find out more about the people who bring northern grit to the big stage… Alan Bennett (1934 – )

The real Dennis Hoban certainly deserves to be celebrated for taking the murders of sex workers more seriously than some of his colleagues and shrewdly joining the dots that suggested a serial killer was at work. But as I watched the programme I couldn’t help comparing it with another, much more unsettling, work that was also inspired by the Sutcliffe murders. With the net tightening, the level of threat increases. Will Caslin, along with those closest to him, be the last victims of a forgotten conflict? Peace has always been clear that his books have a moral force. “The majority of British crime novels are a nonsense,” he said in 2010. “The Crime Writers’ Association has an award for a comic crime novel. How absurd to create this false picture of what reality is. Crime is not cosy, but brutal and destructive. It devastates people’s lives.” When the only link between two apparently random murders appears to be an aging Catholic priest, Caslin is thrust into a world of long-buried secrets. Drawing unwanted attention from the intelligence services, he must consider if the man he once trusted above all others is now playing by his own rules. With professional killers circling, Caslin must face uncomfortable truths about those seeking redemption. Sometimes, justice is best served from the wrong side of the law.Emily only had one novel published before her death at the age of 30 from tuberculosis. Her last words were “If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now”. She wrote… The renowned dramatist and actor, was born in Leeds and went to Oxford and became part of the university review ‘Beyond the Fringe’, produced for the Edinburgh Festival of 1960. Alan Bennett’s play, The Madness of George III, dramatises the monarch’s real-life struggle with porphyria-induced insanity, and his treatment by, among others, Dr Francis Willis. Some say this treatment took place in Ravenscar, in the house that is now the Ravens Hall Hotel. The spot is breathtakingly beautiful.

Sometimes the world feels like a fierce, uncomfortable place. We're bombarded with stories of political unrest, constant technological change, and unpleasant scandals. The temptation to retreat from all this, to look for a better world is strong. Space exploration is one option. Burying your head in a good book is infinitely easier. Castle Hill Bookshopin Richmond has an excellent collection of books about the local area and helps to organise the Richmond Walking and Book Festival together with Swaledale Outdoor Club and a team of volunteers. The Grove Bookshop in Ilkley on the fringes of the Yorkshire Dales has an excellent selection of books, is a good place to learn more about the Ilkley Literary Festival & has an added benefit - it's very close to a branch of Bettys' Tea Rooms! During the thirty years he spent in Hull, Larkin produced a significant body of poetry. In 2003, almost two decades after his death and despite controversy about his personal life and opinions, Larkin was chosen as “the nation’s best-loved poet” in a survey by the Poetry Book Society, and in 2008 The Times named Larkin as the greatest British post-war writer. Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963)Born to a farming family in Rudston, East Yorkshire, Holtby was a prolific journalist. Holtby’s most important book was South Riding, published posthumously in 1936. The book is set in the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire. Peace represents a generation scarred by the malevolent, hidden presence of the Ripper, at once bogeyman and genuine threat. After studying at Manchester Polytechnic, he embarked on his first attempt to write about the Ripper, but foundered: “Manchester at that time was a very unpleasant place to live. I was lonely and unemployed, and I found researching the Yorkshire Ripper utterly depressing.” Swaledale: Valley of the River by Andrew Fleming is a great book if you’re interested in the history and geology of the landscape , similarly David Johnson’s full history Ingleborough: Landscape and History .

Born in Barnsley and now living in Huddersfield, Joanne was a teacher for 15 years, during which time she published novels including… David Peace knows it was impossible to avoid hearing the word “Ripper” being shouted or whispered in West Yorkshire at that time: he was there. Peace was born in 1967 and grew up in Ossett, near Dewsbury. Haunted by the ghosts of the past, Caslin is pushed to his limits. Will this case break him or be his path to redemption?

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After all that crime, you'll probably be ready for something a little more upbeat such as Mary Jane Baker'sromantic comedies set in the Dales - the Love in the Dales series including A Bicycle Made for Two and The Perfect Fit.

DI Nathaniel Caslin is stable for the first time in years. Now he can look to the future, or so he thought. Granting a small favour to a friend can often be anything but simple.... Peace’s readers will note that the television series has an infinitesimally happier ending than the books do. The scriptwriter Tony Grisoni explained: “It was an emotional reaction … to two and a half years of being in this inferno that David Peace had constructed. David doesn’t save anyone. Whereas I needed to.” From Leeds, ten of her books have been made into mini series and television movies. The No. 1 best-selling author of women’s fiction over the last 30 years. Highlights of her long career include: Anne was the youngest of the sisters, she died while on holiday to Scarborough where she is buried. She published under the name Acton Bell, her works include…a large collection relating to the Yorkshire Dales and other parts of North Yorkshire, and the East Riding. We also have a collection of Yorkshire Parish Registers. Gissing Collection The Yorkshire Dales are peaceful and fairly crime-free and yet the area has somehow inspired a myriad of crime-writers. Susan Parry lives in Swaledale which she uses as her setting for her series of mysteries, peppered with local details such as details of lead-mining in the past. Simon Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in the village of Marsden, where his family still live. Armitage was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and succeeded Geoffrey Hill as Oxford Professor of Poetry when he was elected to the four-year part-time appointment from 2015 to 2019. Our adopted poets… Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985) Many authors have given their accounts of life in the Yorkshire Dales. Some have become so loved, their works have become collectors' items and much-prized social history. WR Mitchell, or Bill as many knew him, was prolific. He loved people and their stories, and spent much of his life interviewing and collecting tales which give some marvellous insights. Yorkshire represents a time gone by, captured in a fascinating collection of interviews he conducted. His Folk Tales on the Settle-Carlisle Railway remains a popular volume. You can listen to some of his interviews thanks to this archive and the work of Settle Stories . Later on, in pursuit of the same man, another cop threatens to rape a woman he encounters so that she will stay out of the way of the arrest. There are no rebukes from an upright chief superintendent.

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