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Andrew Martin

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In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain’s most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.

Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and peculiarities. York is an evolving city of chocolate, trains, pubs and tourists. Scarborough should be viewed as the posh place it once was, with surprising secrets pertaining to Adolf Hitler and the sea. Leeds is seen as the ‘hard’ town with its party goers and late-night provocateurs, but its indoor market never fails to offer a sense of quintessential Yorkshireness on a rainy Saturday afternoon, with milky tea served in beakers and the Leeds United result coming through by osmosis. And the Moors and Dales continue to boast beauty and danger alike.

Effortlessly entertaining and wonderfully detailed, Yorkshire: There and Back is a memoir, guide, and all-round appreciation of ‘God’s own county’.


Praise for Andrew Martin

‘There is no one else who is writing like Andrew Martin today…unique and important’ Guardian

‘Iconoclastic, entertaining and often devastatingly witty’ Barry Forshaw, Independent

‘He can stop you in your tracks with a well-turned phrase’ Sunday Times

‘A genuinely funny writer…also a daring one’ The Times
Playing With Bones

Playing With Bones

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Kate Ellis

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On a grey October morning, the strangled body of a teenager is found in the North Yorkshire city of Eborby, a mutilated doll lying by her side.

Singmass Close, where the girl is found, has a famously sinister past. Reputedly haunted by the ghosts of children, it was the hunting ground of the Doll Strangler, a ruthless killer of the 1950s who was never brought to justice.

With the recent disappearance of another young female and an escaped convict at large, this horrific murder stretches Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet’s team to the limit. Is a copycat killer on the loose, or could the Doll Strangler really be back?

As the bodies start mounting up and Joe’s questioning brings him closer to the real strangler, he comes to suspect a shockingly creepy connection between all three cases . . .

Praise for Kate Ellis . . .


‘A beguiling author’ The Times

‘Clever plotting hides a powerful story of loss, malice and deception’ Ann Cleeves

‘Haunting’ Independent

‘The chilling plot will keep you spooked and thrilled to the end’ Closer

‘Unputdownable’ Bookseller

‘A fine storyteller’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Death in the Stars

Death in the Stars

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Frances Brody

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‘Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers’ Daily Mail

A theatre party

Yorkshire, 1927. Eclipse fever grips the nation, and when beloved theatre star Selina Fellini approaches trusted sleuth Kate Shackleton to accompany her to a viewing party at Giggleswick School Chapel, Kate suspects an ulterior motive.

A dead body discovered

During the eclipse, Selina’s friend and co-star Billy Moffatt disappears and is later found dead in the chapel grounds. Kate can’t help but dig deeper and soon learns that two other members of the theatre troupe died in similarly mysterious circumstances in the past year. With the help of Jim Sykes and Mrs Sugden, Kate sets about investigating the deaths – and whether there is a murderer in the company.

An elusive killer must be caught

When Selina’s elusive husband Jarrod, injured in the war and subject to violent mood swings, comes back on the scene, Kate begins to imagine something far deadlier at play, and wonders just who will be next to pay the ultimate price for fame . . .

Praise for Frances Brody’s Kate Shackleton series:

‘Frances Brody matches a heroine of free and independent spirit with a vivid evocation of time and place . . . a novel to cherish’ Barry Turner, Daily Mail

‘Brody’s excellent mystery splendidly captures the conflicts and attitudes of the time with well-developed characters’ RT Book Reviews

‘Kate Shackleton is a splendid heroine’ Ann Granger

‘Kate Shackleton joins Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs in a subgroup of young, female amateur detectives who survived and were matured by their wartime experiences. As self-reliant women in a society that still regards them a second-class citizens, they make excellent heroines’ Literary Review

‘Frances Brody skilfully holds our attention, making us want to read on and then look forward to the next Kate Shackleton mystery’ Gazette & Herald

‘Kate Shackleton is a delightful leading character. The flavour of post First World War England is beautifully portrayed. An enjoyable and gripping mystery story’ CrimeSquad.com

The author keeps us highly entertained with an interesting and exciting plot, impeccably researched, and a style of writing that has the reader turning the pages eagerly to discover the truth of the mystery. Francis Brody is fast becoming “the queen of light crime fiction”‘ Gazette & Herald

This is whimsical, colourful stuff and readers will warm to the entrepreneurial yet fragile Kate’ Take a Break

Refreshing and highly entertaining, especially for the winter nights’ Gazette & Herald
The Colours

The Colours

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Juliet Bates

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‘A carefully crafted, totally engaging epic family drama’ Yorkshire Post

‘Delightful’ Daily Mail

Da said the Pearson family came out of the sand. He said they were born out of the red clarty sand that stuck to the soles of boots and the hems of frocks.

You couldn’t just brush the sand away, you had to beat your clothes with the palm of your hand like you were smacking them for being naughty. You had to bang your boots against the doorstep and find a knife to gouge away the sand that clung to the heels and round the stitching.

Ellen has a unique view of the world but living in a tiny town in the north-east of England, in a world on the cusp of war, no one has time for an orphaned girl who seems a little odd. When she is taken in to look after a rich, elderly widow things seem to be get better, despite musty curtains and an aging employer completely out of touch with the world. But pregnancy out of wedlock spoils all this, and Ellen is unable to cope. How will Jack, her son, survive – alone in the world as his mother was? Can they eventually find their way back to each other?

The Colours is a sweeping novel of how we can lose ourselves, and our loved ones, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Virginia Baily.
A Mother's Sacrifice

A Mother's Sacrifice

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Catherine King

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author, another gritty and compelling saga in the vein of Dilly Court and Maggie Hope.

Destitute.
Quinta Haig is struggling to make ends meet at Top Field with her ailing mother, Laura. Their small Yorkshire farm is run-down and isolated and when the only way to take their goods to market is lost, Quinta is prepared to sacrifice almost anything for both of them to survive.

Coveted.
Noah Bilton, a wealthy neighbour, has designs on Top Field as well as ideas for the future of Laura and her daughter. He offers an uneasy solution to keep them out of the workhouse, but Laura Haig will have nothing to do with it, or him.

Deserted.
Quinta finds love against all odds, but is deserted at her most vulnerable. The hardships that follow give her a steely determination to seek retribution from the man who has wronged her – but can revenge ever bring back her happiness?
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

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Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Ingpen, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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‘The mystery element kept me turning the pages but it was the superb characterisation that made the story stay with me. It taught me that it’s never too late to remake yourself into someone better’ MALORIE BLACKMAN, TELEGRAPH

‘The Secret Garden should be on every child’s bookshelf’ THE TIMES

‘There is an old-fashioned tenderness and joy to it; the sense that magic happens if you are observant and quiet and know it will’ SOPHIE DAHL

‘A blend of power, beauty, vivid interest and honest goodness. Yes, if this is magic, it is good magic’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘She put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key, and found it fitted the keyhole . . . she held back the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which opened slowly. Then she slipped through it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement and wonder and delight. She was standing inside the secret garden’

Everybody at Misselthwaite Manor agrees that Mary Lennox is the most disagreeable child they have ever met. Pale, selfish and spoilt, the ten-year-old orphan has been sent from India to her uncle’s estate and she is determined to hate everything about it. But the isolated house on the Yorkshire moors holds secrets that Mary cannot resist exploring: pitiful crying that echoes down the corridors at night and a hidden walled garden. When a robin leads Mary to the buried key, not only is the garden unlocked, but also her heart. And as the garden blooms, for the first time in her life, Mary discovers friendship. This is where the magic begins . . .

A collection that will be coveted by children and adults alike, this list is the best in children’s literature, curated by Virago. These are timeless tales with beautiful covers, that will be treasured and shared across the generations. Some titles you will already know; some will be new to you, but there are stories for everyone to love, whatever your age. Our list includes Nina Bawden (Carrie’s War, The Peppermint Pig), Rumer Godden (The Dark Horse, An Episode of Sparrows), Joan Aiken (The Serial Garden, The Gift Giving) E. Nesbit (The Psammead Trilogy, The Bastable Trilogy, The Railway Children), L. M. Montgomery (The Anne of Green Gables series) and Susan Coolidge (The What Katy Did Trilogy). Discover Virago Children’s Classics.
Tread Softly, Alice

Tread Softly, Alice

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Jessica Blair

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At the age of eighteen, Alice Ware is pretty, charming and impetuous. Back home in Yorkshire at the start of a new century, she is determined to seize any fresh opportunities and experiences that come her way.

The arrival of a new neighbour, the elegant and scandalous Mrs Emma Cheevey, leads to visits from her two highly eligible soldier sons. Alice is instantly drawn to Matthew, the younger brother – and then Captain Steven Cheevey arrives home from South Africa, where he was part of the British expeditionary force at the Relief of Mafeking.

Alice’s choice is made, her future secure . . . until a reckless decision throws the lives of three people into turmoil. Reluctant to return home, she seeks refuge in the one place where she knows she will find peace, perhaps for ever. It will take a visit from the man who loves her to persuade Alice to reconsider and dare to live again.
What's Tha Up To Nah?

What's Tha Up To Nah?

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Martyn Johnson

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‘Many times I heard people say that you’ll have no friends if you’re a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.’

PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the golden age of policing.

With his nose for trouble and a knack for mischief, there’s no such thing as a quiet shift for the friendly Yorkshire bobby – from drunken dogs and runaway horses to high-speed chases after Burglar Bill, there’s always something to keep him busy and always another troublemaker to put to rights.

And with a cuppa-tea stop and a familiar face on every corner of his beat, he’s never far from a friend.
The Lord God Made Them All

The Lord God Made Them All

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James Herriot, Christopher Timothy

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The war is over, the RAF uniform has been handed in and James Herriot goes back where he ought to be – at work in the dales around Darrowby. Much has changed, but the blunt-spoken Yorkshire folk and the host of four-legged patients are still the same. So is their vet, who doesn’t yet know that literary success is just around the corner…
The Abyss

The Abyss

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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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1833: the industrial age is sweeping through England and the Stephensons are planning the greatest engineering scheme ever undertaken- a railway line from Liverpool to London.

At Morland Place, Nicholas had hoped that his brother Benedict, had been banished forever, but railway fever has brought Benedict back to Yorkshire as an engineer on the Leeds & Selby line. It is a lonely life and he fears he will never be wealthy enough to marry his new love, Miss Fleetham. Nicholas fears that Benedict is not only a threat to his inheritance but to Morland Place itself, as plans to bring the railway to York will desecrate the estate.

The conflict between the brothers mirrors the nation’s battle between the old and new, but the Morland feud seems certain to end in tragedy and no-one the victor.

Mike Pannett

Mike Pannett is Yorkshire born and bred but on joining the police force moved down to London for a spell. By 1997 he had exhausted his batteries and moved back home, where he became a rural beat officer for 10 years. In 2007 he resigned from the police force to set up his own business which provides entertainment centres for children under 12, themed on the Yorkshire countryside and its animals. Mike lives with his family in a village just outside York.

Mike Pannett

Mike Pannett is Yorkshire born and bred but on joining the police force moved down to London for a spell. By 1997 he had exhausted his batteries and moved back home, where he became a rural beat officer for 10 years. In 2007 he resigned from the police force to set up his own business which provides entertainment centres for children under 12, themed on the Yorkshire countryside and its animals. Mike lives with his family in a village just outside York.
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