willoyd Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Madeleine said: I've put the Essex Serpent as my Essex book, as there aren't that many books set there unless they're about witches or gangsters! So it made a nice change to read about something different for once. Another one that would fit there, I think, if you wanted to avoid witches and gangsters (!) is Secret Water - the Arthur Ransome book. This was possibly my favourite in the Swallows and Amazons series when I first read them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clara Rosager Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Hello, i will try this challenge After seeing a link to another challenge for the US, poppyshake and I thought it would be fun to do the same thing for English Counties. The idea is to read the most famous book from each county. Below is a list of all the current counties in England with the most famous book(s) for each one, as we have discussed on this thread. 1. Bedfordshire - My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates 2. Berkshire - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 3. Bristol - The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young 4. Buckinghamshire - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper 5. Cambridgeshire - The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers 6. Cheshire - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 7. City of London - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 8. Cornwall - Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier 9. Cumbria - Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome [alt. The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg] 10. Derbyshire - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 11. Devon - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie or The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 12. Dorset - Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 13. County Durham - Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 14. East Riding of Yorkshire - South Riding by Winifred Holtby 15. East Sussex - Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne 16. Essex - The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James 17. Gloucestershire - Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee 18. Greater London* - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 19. Greater Manchester - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 20. Hampshire - Watership Down by Richard Adams 21. Herefordshire - On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 22. Hertfordshire - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 23. Isle of Wight - England, England by Julian Barnes [alt. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (this book is only briefly set on the Isle of Wight but that particular section is famously associated with it)] 24. Kent - The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates 25. Lancashire - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 26. Leicestershire - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend 27. Lincolnshire - The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 28. Merseyside - An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge 29. Norfolk - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley 30. North Yorkshire - Dracula by Bram Stoker [alt. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot] 31. Northamptonshire - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 32. Northumberland - The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin 33. Nottinghamshire - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 34. Oxfordshire - The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 35. Rutland - Set In Stone by Robert Goddard 36. Shropshire - Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse 37. Somerset - Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 38. South Yorkshire - A Kestral For A Knave by Barry Hines 39. Staffordshire - The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett 40. Suffolk - The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald 41. Surrey - Emma by Jane Austen or The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 42. Tyne and Wear - Another World by Pat Barker 43. Warwickshire - Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes 44. West Midlands - Middlemarch by George Eliot 45. West Sussex - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 46. West Yorkshire - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 47. Wiltshire - Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 48. Worcestershire - The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall 12/48 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 On 1/7/2023 at 9:00 PM, Clara Rosager said: Hello, i will try this challenge It's really good fun - I thoroughly enjoyed it! Good luck, and do let us know how you get on (I moved on to a United States version!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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