Books set in Devon

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B1teS1ze · 22/02/2020 14:05

Will be having a staycation this year. Always read books where I travel and just realised I’ve never done it for home.

Agatha Christie aside it looks like slim pickings.

Any recommendations?

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Her0utdoors · 22/02/2020 19:28

I was going to suggest Henry Williamston. Lorna Doone, all though little bit Somerset too. I loved the Moorland Mousey series as a girl, I grew up riding on Exmoor and have lovely memories. Johnny Kingdom must have written lots. Charles Kingsley? Hazel Erdley Wilmot?

ILiveInSalemsLot · 22/02/2020 19:27

www.tripfiction.com/find-a-book/?location=Devon&btitle=&bauthor=&genre=Genre...

FiveGoMadInDorset · 22/02/2020 19:23

There is a new Ann Cleeve one set in Devon,

wonderrotunda · 22/02/2020 19:19

Oooh Hound of the Baskervilles - good shout!

wonderrotunda · 22/02/2020 19:19

Maybe Devon, the film says Cornwall but I don't think the book is so explicit - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, real page turner...love that book!

Beekeeper1 · 22/02/2020 19:11

Stalky & Co - Rudyard Kipling
Tarka The Otter - Henry Williamson, in fact, virtually everything by Williamson is set in Devon!
Yes to Lorna Doone
Hound of the Baskervilles - Conan Doyle

Ellmau · 22/02/2020 19:06

How about some classics?

Sense and Sensibility
Lorna Doone

Also Tim Pears, In The Place Of Fallen Leaves, is good

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