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Derbyshire Reading Detectives finale
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 and the team. It's been great fun and I've learnt a lot. I believe the website is staying open for further comments and we really hope we can develop Reading Detective groups in other areas of Derbyshire.31 October 2009 from Will Newman
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Finds
- The lost villages of Derwent and Ashopton
- Fludd by Hilary Mantell
- A Beautiful Place for a Murder
- Jeannie of White Peak Farm
- Unrest of their Time
- Derbyshire wins the Booker Prize!
- John Buxton Hilton: Rescue from the Rose
- The Mermaid poem by Henry Kirke
- Poems of Peak and Dale
- Arnemetia
- Poole's Cavern, Buxton
- In Place of Execution....
- Scared to live
- The Jane Eyre Connection
- Haunted Derbyshire and the Peak District
- Narnia in the Peak District?
- The Wonders of the Peake...
- Night Angels: a scary episode on the Snake Pass
- Blue John
- Buxton under the crust.....
- Mysterious Mermaid in Derbyshire
- Ghost walks
- The poet and the pool.....
- More murder in the Peak District
- Inspired by the Peak
- Bygone Derbyshire clues
- Finished!
Recent posts
- Reading Detectives film
- Derbyshire Reading Detectives finale
- Reading Detectives in the News
- Buxton Ghost Walk
- Days at the Museum
- Stephen Booth
- Ghostwalkers in Buxton
- First meeting
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Just returned from the Derbyshire Finale event at Buxton Library. Thoroughly enjoyable!
Surprised that the list of authors influenced by Derbyshire didn't include Georgette Heyer, who set a Who-Dun-It / Romance called 'The Toll-Gate' in the area around Tideswell.
Jane Austen set part of 'Pride and Prejudice' in Derbyshire, of course, but most of the book is set in Hertfordshire, so perhaps it doesn't count.
Thanks for the comments John. Someone else in the audience handed me a note yesterday about the Georgette Heyer book. They had suddenly remembered it during the presentations. That's been part of the real pleasure of doing Reading Detectives.
Do Children's books count? Berlie Doherty is a local lass, and I am sure one of her books was set in Derbyshire. She read some of it at a hooked on reading conference a few years ago. I also think that caroline pincher's (ten?) 0'clock chocolate cake is set in Long Eaton, but I suppose there is some discussion as to whether that is Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire.