Exploring Nottinghamshire WritersExploring Nottinghamshire Writers is a guide book to the literary landscape of the region three centuries and more of writers and the places that inspired them. This book celebrates not only the obvious giants like Byron, Lawrence and Sillitoe, but dozens of others who were best sellers in their day (Muriel Hine and J. C. Snaith, anybody?) and others whose stories had been forgotten. Here, then, are more than a hundred Nottinghamshire authors

In Ellams’ meticulous hands

‘Tombs of our Ancestors’

‘The Fox’

In this collection of 'fragments

A secondary theme running throughout the book is the manner in which small-town life

and poems that are admixtures of themes

The very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs was produced in Reading between 1844 and 1846

As well as observations on the town and its culture

a parliament of ghosts

No matter how ludicrous it may sound now

lasting nearly two years

My Lou I shall sleep tonight in the trenches