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. On leaving grammar school Priestley worked in the wool trade of his native city of Bradford, but had ambitions to become a writer. He was to draw on memories of Yorkshire in many of the works he wrote after he had moved south. 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’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.” We buy and sell second-hand, antiquarian, rare and out of print books on most subjects but specialise in Yorkshire material and George Gissing. Book searches undertaken with no obligation to buy.

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.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: 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 . DI Nathaniel Caslin is in conflict with his inner demons. His career is resurgent, but the greater battle, that with his addiction, is still raging...and he is losing.

Anne, Charlotte and Emily are known worldwide due to their passionate literary classics. Born in Thornton, Bradford, they later moved to Haworth where the majority of their work was written and where you can find the Parsonage Museum. The trio wrote their initial works under pen names due to the misogynistic nature of the publishing industry at the time. The three sisters were not the only Brontë sisters as they had older sisters Elizabeth and Maria, who both unfortunately died before reaching adulthood. Charlotte Brontë (1816 -1855) He wrote his first novel, 1974, purely for his own satisfaction, researching 1970s Yorkshire using the microfiched British newspapers in the Japanese public libraries; his father persuaded him to submit it for publication, and the small independent firm Serpent’s Tail published the book in 1999. 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.... 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 West Yorkshire near Pontefract. In 2005, he won two BAFTA’S for a film he wrote and directed on location in Hull. His plays are performed across the world, Bouncers being the most popular. A playwright with a passion for Yorkshire…

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. 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 melodramatic events are underpinned by Peace’s eerie evocation of the psychogeography of West Yorkshire, his characters being haunted with a sense of the area’s violent past, conjured up in his incantatory, mesmerically repetitious prose: he is a novelist who is perhaps best read out loud. Are these books modernist fiction disguised as crime thrillers, or vice versa? They are certainly unlike anything else in crime fiction.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. 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. 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) 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.