Results for: books tagged ‘North of England’
The Family Reunion: T. S. Eliot
Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak ... More
The York Realist: Peter Gill
A beautifully gentle love story set in the 1960s outside York, between a farm labourer who acts in a local version of the Mystery Plays and the Director, up from ... More
Haweswater: Sarah Hall
It is 1936 in a remote dale in the old, northern county of Westmorland. For centuries the rural community has remained the same, the Lightburn family have been immersed in ... More
The North of England Home Service: Gordon Burn
In a forensic dissection of Britain's souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from his fading career, who returns to ... More
The History Boys: Alan Bennett
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply ... More
The History Boys: Alan Bennett
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply ... More
Shorty Loves Wing Wong: Michael Smith
Returning to the Headland, the narrator of Shorty Loves Wing Wong is struck by the memories that return to him in this strange and remote coastal town on the borders ... More
The Giro Playboy: Michael Smith
The Giro Playboy recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east of London (where the streets are paved with gold) and on to Brighton and ... More
Nature's Engraver: Jenny Uglow
In one of the most acclaimed biographies of recent years, Jenny Uglow tells the story of Thomas Bewick, the farmer’s son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood engraving with his beautiful ... More
The Damned Utd: David Peace
John Simm, star of Life on Mars, becomes the voice of Brian Clough in David Peace's brilliant and bestselling novel. More
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