I need a book set in Northumberland please.

[SheelaNeGoldGig]

any ideas?

I'm away next week and I like to read something set where I am.

Last year i read Persuasion and Remarkable creatures while I was in Lyme regis.

Any ideas?

Have a feeling the The Wire in the Blood was set in Northumberland if that's of any use?

On the other hand, I get about 30 pages in without being very inspired..!

Oh thanks. Will looky.

Joan Aiken's Deception.

Pretty sure Wife in the Northis

Is that black hearts in battersea joan aiken?

Yup but it is an adult book. I love it, one of my faves to be revisited again & again.

I'm not sure there's much that's been set in Northumberland - you may find more choices if you include Newcastle, then that might include some Pat Barker and a book by Joanna Trollope called The Other Family.

Some (maybe even all) of David Almond's novels are set in the North East. I love Skellig and Kits Wilderness. They are children's books, but they're really evocative of the area to me.

Have a look at Read Regional, an annual promotion of books from/set in the north of England. Not all Northumberland, but you should find some good ones there. Agree that David Almond is probably the best writer setting fiction in Northumberland at the moment, and his books stand up really well for adult reading - Jacksaw Summer is a fantastic novel set in the Tyne Valley.

And of course there's always Catherine Cookson, if that's your sort of thing.

Lots of Catherine Cookson set in that part of the world.
Lorna Hill set some of hers there too - Stolen Holiday and Marjorie & Co, and bits of the "Sadler's Wells" series are set there.
O Douglas sets several of hers around Peebles and the borders if that's not too far north for you.

The Flither Pickers and The Herring Girls by Therese Tomlinson are set in Whitby, but would that do? Young Adult but very good. There's an Anya Seton book about the Jacobin rebellion set in Northumberland, but I couldn't get into it much (it's a romance).

Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series, the books are better than the TV adaptations; gripping in a slow-burn kind of way, lots of landscape.

PomBear - I'd forgotten all about Lorna Hill. I used to love reading her as a child - just about the only books I read set in my home county (grew up in the NE).

You might like to try:
Mari Hannah - The Murder Wall, set in Newcastle and part set Corbridge
Brian Pendreigh - The Man in the 7th Row, part set Berwick
Wedlock - Wendy Moore part set in Northumberland

Someone must have written something about Grace Darling?

& there's Jenny Uglow's biography of Thomas Bewick the engraver.

Ooh! Of course - there's Jill Paton Walsh's 'Grace'.

Lovely book, but definitely sad.

Odd division of these into brutal thrillers and books for children/young adults. In the latter category, Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch are marvellous.

Mary Stewart's The Ivy Tree - if you like an old fashioned romance. Complete with singing hinnies!!