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Novels set in Yorkshire, England. This includes the historic Yorkshire, with its three divisions, East Riding, West Riding and North Riding; also the post-1972 shire county of North Yorkshire and the metropolitan counties West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.
Peter Robinson (17 March 1950 – 4 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian crime writer who was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He also published a number of other novels and short stories, as well as some poems and two articles on writing.
The Inspector Banks series is a collection of mystery novels by Peter Robinson about Detective Superintendent Alan Banks. The series is set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales. Robinson has stated that Eastvale is modelled on Ripon and Richmond and is somewhere north of Ripon, close to the A1 road . [1]
A Grass Rope is a children's novel by William Mayne, first published by Oxford in 1957 with illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Mayne won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [2] Set in the Yorkshire Dales, it is a simple story subtly told, steeped in the past and with a strong sense of place ...
The novel has been commended for its sense for community and realistic character portrayal, as well as for being a very funny story. In a 1972 history of British children's novels since World War II, Marcus Crouch summarises, " The Grange at High Force is about bikes and boats, gunpowder, Norman architecture, eighteenth-century social history ...
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Darrowby is a fictional village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, which was created by author Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot as the setting for the veterinary practice in his book It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. The book has been adapted for two television series, both titled All Creatures Great and Small.