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  • Location: Yorkshire Dales

All Teachers Great and Small

1980s: A charming tale of a man who taught in a Yorkshire school and wrote his experiences down in a heart warming memoir

  • Location: Yorkshire Dales

All Teachers Wise and Wonderful

1980s: A year on from All Teachers Great and Small and we’re back in the lovely warm and very witty Yorkshire Dales with new teacher…

  • Location: London, The World, USA, Suez Canal, India, Japan

Around the World in Eighty Days (Real Reads)

1872: The novel which inspired the booktrail – travelling, languages and reading!

  • Location: Newfoundland

The Shipping News

1990s -Place names tell the story of this island – Gripe Point, Breakheart Point, Savage Point but also Bay of Hope. There was no road across…

  • Location: Québec, Three Pines (fictional), Queen Charlotte Islands

The Brutal Telling (Inspector Gamache 5)

2000s: Three Pines was not like any other village. “Every Québec village has a vocation”. “Some make cheese, some wine, some pots. We produce bodies.”

Featured Book

White City

1952: An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history.

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