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  • Location: The Lake District

The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics)

Early 1900s: Can murder really bleaken the gorgoeous landscape of the Lake District?

  • Location: Edinburgh

Northanger Abbey

2000s: “It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books”

  • Location: Devon

A Game For All The Family

2000s: Moving from London to Devon should mean less stress, more time to relax and a happier, more peaceful life shouldn’t it?

  • Location: Hong Kong

The Piano Teacher

1940s, 1950s: Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and ’50s.

  • Location: Cornwall

Pippa’s Cornish Dream

2000s: A woman bringing up her four siblings following the death of their parents finds that life in Cornwall isn’t a beach after all and…

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The Other Side of Mrs Wood

1873:  ‘I want your reputation’, the girl said to Mrs Wood. ‘I want everything you have…’

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