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Books set in Dorset or on trains.

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BitchfaceBarclay · 30/04/2017 22:20

I like a book to match a holiday. I'm off todorset with notsoD H to do something to do with trains. At least he's going to look at trains and I intend to moon around living in a novel. Sunning myself on the beach and imbibing in a little gin or cocktail.

Ideas please.

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SplitInfinitive · 30/04/2017 22:47

Ok :o How about Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier? It's set in Lyme Regis, about Mary Anning.

Persuasion by Jane Austen is partially set in Lyme Regis too.

annandale · 30/04/2017 22:43

The Nine Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers is ALL about trains.

The Last Battle by CS Lewis - trains are involved.

Red for Danger by L something Holt - every railway accident in the first 150 years of railways or thereabouts, in graphic detail. Absolutely brilliant.

Persuasion by jane Austen

On Chesil Beach - if you hate yourself, and your DH, and the world.

caprifun · 30/04/2017 22:40

On Chesil beach?

TheoriginalLEM · 30/04/2017 22:39

Marking my place - i love dorset and trains are quite nice.

sorry, not helpful

HerculesMulligan · 30/04/2017 22:38

Moonfleet?

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BitchfaceBarclay · 30/04/2017 22:37

Possibly. Maybe something a bit lighter?

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SplitInfinitive · 30/04/2017 22:35

Thomas Hardy?