Books set in Norfolk please

[SilkStalkings]

Just booked our summer holiday in Norfolk, never been so looking for fiction set there please.
Tia x

Thanks for all these! I've just read The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss which is partly in Norfolk but could be anywhere really. It's an absolute hoot though.

I wonder if any of Stephen Fry's books are

Apparently The Hippopotamus is

Yes Future Homemakers of America is one of my favourites too.It made me cry. I live in the area its written about ,I don't know if that makes it more poignant to me.

PD James has a couple set in Norfolk- can't remember which though.

Following on from a previous thread, the Chris Crowther books are gentle detective stories, set on the Broads. They aren't available generally, but you can get them from his website, and a lot of the touristy shops around the broads stock them. We've bought all of ours from Lathams in Potter Heigham. There's a new one out this spring/summer, it'll be the fifth, I think.

Cry of the bittern radio play, I bet you can down load it somewhere.

Some of Emma Freud's books are set in Suffolk - in particular Walberswick.

For Kings Lynn locals such as myself there are a couple of crime fiction books by local author (and my acquaintance) Ken Ward on amazon. Tower of Silence and One Good Shot I think from the top of my head.

Libby Purves has set a couple of her excellent novels there:

A Long Walk in Wintertime is highly recommended.

There's Sebald's The Emigrants, but not exactly a light holiday read

The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom. Not read it yet myself as waiting for it to stop being a silly price for kindle and come to something more reasonable (like 99p...).

I believe it is set in Blakeney.

Oi, Georgina, Jim Kelly's Philip Dryden series - which is very good, btw - is set in Cambridgeshire, not Norfolk!

Yes,meant his police procedural ones!
Dryden does venture into Norfolk though!

One of the original ACD Sherlock Holmes stories is set in Norfolk (Aylsham?). Topical & all.

Georgina

I didn't realise that Jim Kelly had written police procedurals as well. I'll have to track those down - even if they are set in an inferior county Norfolk

I love Jim Kelly's books mac

Weirdo - Cathy Unsworth - is set in Great Yarmouth :)

It was Sarah Ridgard who wrote Seldom Seen and I agree it's a brilliant book. The Norfolk Parson James Woodforde's Diary is a good read if you enjoy history. He lived 1740-1803. And staying in the past there's Harriet Martineau and the Paston letters from the Norfolk family gentry.
Happy Holiday.

Oh sorry, reading again I see you are looking for fiction.
I'll sort out the weather here for you instead.

There are the Arthur Ransome ones which are set on the Broads. They are called COOT CLUB and THE BIG SIX.
Great to read if you are stayi g on the broads.

Inspector Gently novels were originally set in Norfolk.

Rafaella Barker is a Norfolk based author and some of here books are inspired by Norfolk and I think set there too.

Roger Deakin, the nature writer has written about Norfolk.

Emma Healey the author of 'Elizabeth is Missing' lives in Norwich.

Twitter people have suggested 'Salt' by Jeremy Page, set in the Norfolk marshes.

'Life: An Unexploded Diagram' by Mal Peet.

Stephen Fry's Moab is My Washpot (S.F's autobiography) has a chunk about a year or more he spent living in Kings Lynn. Also his family home was at, I think, Booton, Norfolk. He did his A Levels at City College, Norwich.