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6 January 2010 from Ruth Harrison | Watch the Derbyshire Reading Detectives' film of their finale event.... Read more or Comment

Derbyshire Reading Detectives finale

31 October 2009 from Will Newman | We're meeting today at 2pm at Buxton Library to celebrate our finds along with Stephen Booth who helped us launch the project back in July. Thanks to everyone who's been involved - the Reading Agency, authors, local studies experts, consultants... Read more or Comment (3 comments)

The lost villages of Derwent and Ashopton Find!

28 October 2009 from Ruth Gordon | It's strange how some places just cry out to be written about and the villages that were drowned under the Ladybower Reservoir have inspired at least 3 stories that I know about. There was Mary Cockett's Drowning Valley told for... Read more or Comment (3 comments)

Fludd by Hilary Mantell Find!

28 October 2009 from Ruth Gordon | I'm delighted Stephen reminded me about Hilary Mantell. Fludd was the first of her novels I ever read and I couldn't stop talking about it. It has a very strong feel of that border area where Lancashire Cheshire and Derbyshire... Read more or Comment (4 comments)

A Beautiful Place for a Murder Find!

26 October 2009 from Will Newman | Can't believe I didn't think of this before, especially as we have been focusing on crime, legends and the supernatural in the Dark Peak, and Berlie is coming to our finale event on Saturday 31st. Just remembered that Berlie... Read more or Comment

Jeannie of White Peak Farm Find!

12 October 2009 from Ruth Gordon | I've just heard that Berlie Doherty's lovely story of a girl growing up on a Peak District farm has been republished this year in paperback by Catnip Publishing. It is a vivid and sensitive description of a family who are tied... Read more or Comment

Unrest of their Time Find!

12 October 2009 from Ruth Gordon | This is a really dark and unsettling story, written by Nellie Kirkham who was much better known as an authority on Derbyshire Lead mining. It tells of the lives of people who lived in the twentieth century and of parallel lives... Read more or Comment

Derbyshire wins the Booker Prize! Find!

8 October 2009 from Stephen Booth | I don't think we've had a mention yet for distinguished Derbyshire author Hilary Mantel, whose novel Wolf Hall has just won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Mantel was born in Glossop and grew up in Hadfield. I'm not sure how how much... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

John Buxton Hilton: Rescue from the Rose Find!

1 October 2009 from Ruth Gordon | George reminded me of John Buxton Hilton's splendid thrillers set in the Peak District in the early 20th century. This is the first I read, featuring his characterful investigator, Inspector Brunt and a wonderfully portrayed Buxton inn, The Little Rose and its inhabitants, including... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

The Mermaid poem by Henry Kirke Find!

1 October 2009 from Ruth Gordon | Here is the poem about the Mermaid of the Mermaid Pool on Kinder (though it could be one of the other Mermaid pools in the Peak as there are no less than 3!) The others are at the Roaches, known as... Read more or Comment

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