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Listing books set in the U.K. is a lot like listing books set in the US - endless. I am going to try to list books by counties, instead.
Books set in Bedfordshire County, UK:
Beatniks by Toby Litt
Bedfordshire by Simon Houfe
Ghosts of Bedfordshire by Betty Puttick
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
The Two Sisters by H.E. Bates
The Dangers of Deceiving a Viscount by Julia London
A Soldier in Bedfordshire, 1941-1942: The Diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers
The Bousfield Diaries: A Middle-Class Family in Late Victorian Bedford by Richard Smart
Exit Stage Left by Adam Croft
Blood Sympathy by Reginald Hill (1st book of Joe Sixsmith series)
Lucas Trent: Guardian in Magic by Richard Blunt
My Lord John by Georgette Heyer
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston
Books Set in Berkshire County, UK:
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (1st book in Nursery Crimes series)
Cocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Three Men in a Boat: by Jerome K. Jerome
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Dead Cert by Dick Francis
A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
Dumb Witness: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
An Anne Perry Christmas: Two Holiday Novels: A Christmas Journey and A Christmas Visitor
The Fourth of June by David Benedictus
The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
The Guardians by John Christopher
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
Silverfin by Charlie Higson
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
The Unseen by Katherine Webb
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Death at Windsor Castle by C.C. Benison
The Wild One by Danelle Harmon (1st book of de Montforte series)
Proof by Seduction by Courtney Milan (1st book in Carhart series)
The Sound of Snow by Katherine Kingsley
The Green Rose by Kathy Lynn Emerson
Troubled Midnight by John E. Gardner
Books Set in the County of Buckinghamshire:
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker (1st book in series)
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (1st book of Dark Is Rising Sequence)
Enigma by Robert Harris
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill
Revenge Grows Harsh by Graham Heywood
In the Springtime of Year by Susan Hill
The Dashwood Haunting, a Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy by Ann Nyland
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There
Books Set in the County of Cambridgeshire
Waterland by Graham Swift
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (1st book in series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (1st book of Dirk Gently series)
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (1st book in Jackson Brodie series)
Maurice by E.M. Forster
An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James (1st book of Cordelia Gray series)
Carnosaur by Harry Adam Knight
Death Of An Expert Witness by P.D. James
Every Breath You Take by Michelle Spring
Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Cambridge Blue by Alison Bruce
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
The Liar by Stephen Fry
The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov (aka Splendor)
Air and Angels by Susan Hill
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
The Glittering Prizes by Frederic Raphael
The Man In The Picture by Susan Hill
The Masters by C.P. Snow
Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
Murder Is Academic: A Cambridge Mystery by Christine Poulson
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Ticket to Ride by Janet Neel
The Fry Chronicles : An Autobiography by Stephen Fry
Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton (Lacey Flint #2)
Dreaming Of The Bones by Deborah Crombie
The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris
The Portrait of Mr. W. H by Oscar Wilde
Steel Witches by Patrick Lennon
The Water Clock by Jim Kelly (1st book of Philip Dryden series)
The Whole World: A Novel by Emily Winslow
The Wyndham Case by Jill Paton Walsh (1st Imogen Quy Mystery)
Books Set in the County of Cheshire
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Elidor by Alan Garner
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner
The Salton Killings by Sally Spencer
The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale of Alderley by Alan Garner
Darkness Falls by Margaret Murphy
Red Shift by Alan Garner
Airs and Graces by Erica James
Strandloper by Alan Garner
Altered Life by Keith Dixon
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley by Alan Garner
The Miser's Daughter by William Harrison Ainsworth
The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark
Stealing Midnight by Tracy MacNish
Betrayed Hearts by Elizabeth Henshall
Books Set in the County of Cornwall
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1st book in Avalon series)
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Wycliffe and the Scapegoat by W.J. Burley (part of series set in Cornwall)
Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff
Bright Day by J.B. Priestley
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Castle Dor by Daphne du Maurier
Jumping the Queue by Mary Wesley
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
The Loveday Fortunes by Kate Tremayne (Part of series set in Cornwall)
The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier
North Face by Mary Renault
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 by Winston Graham (1st book of Poldark)
Ritual by David Pinner
The Rose and the Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott
Finding the Fox by Ali Sparkes (1st book of Shapeshifter series)
The Siege of Trencher's Farm - Straw Dogs by Gordon Williams
The Lighthouse by P.D. James
Ingo by Helen Dunmore (1st book of Ingo series)
Under Plum Lake by Lionel Davidson
When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
Why The Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
The Wreck Of The Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo
The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson
Millie's Fling by Jill Mansell
Penmarric by Susan Howatch
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
The Little Country by Charles de Lint
A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
One Night of Scandal by Teresa Medeiros (2nd book in Farleigh Sisters series)
The King's General by Daphne du Maurier
Minx by Julia Quinn (3rd book in Splendid series)
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George (4th book in Inspector Lynley series)
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey #8)
In the Blood by Steve Robinson
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George Inspector Lynley #15)
Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
The Lamorna Wink by Martha Grimes (Richard Jury #16)
Avalon by Anya Seton
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Bride of Pendorric by Victoria Holt
Wait for What Will Come by Barbara Michaels
Dudleytown by L.B. Gregg (1st book of Cornish Novellas series)
Rough Music by Patrick Gale
Name to a Face by Robert Goddard
Week in Winter by Marcia Willett
Sea Music by Sara MacDonald
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
Ferryman by Carole Sutton
Vanishing Cornwall by Daphne du Maurier
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot by Arthur Conan Doyle
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
Three Act Tragedy: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
Be Mine Tonight by Kathryn Smith (1st book of Brotherhood of Blood series)
Legend of the Seventh Virgin by Victoria Holt
Moonspun Magic by Catherine Coulter
The Bride Finder by Susan Carroll (1st book of St. Leger series)
Devil's Desire by Laurie McBain
Midshipman Bolitho by Alexander Kent (1st book in Richard Bolitho series)
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley
Duke of Sin by Adele Ashworth (1st book of Duke Trilogy)
Honor Bound by Brenda Novak
The Magic Knot by Helen Scott Taylor (1st book in series)
In the Blood by Steve Robinson (1st Genealogical Crime Mystery)
If the Slipper Fits by Olivia Drake (1st book of Cinderella Sisterhood series)
Isis by Douglas Clegg
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
Murder on the Cliffs by Joanna Challis (1st book of series)
Up With the Larks: Starting Again in Cornwall by Tessa Hainsworth
Churchyard and Hawke by E.V. Thompson
Hidden Treasures by Fern Britton
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier
Fearless by Elvira Woodruff
Merlin's Blade by Robert Treskillard
Wings Of Fire by Charles Todd (Inspector In Rutledge #2)
Books Set in County Cumbria (Including Cumberland)
Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
The Hand of the Devil by Dean Vincent Carter
The Hired Man by Melvyn Bragg (1st book of Tallentire Trilogy)
No Boats on Bannermere by Geoffrey Trease
The Picts and the Martyrs by Arthur Ransome
A Place In England by Melvyn Bragg
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
The Shield Ring by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1st book in series)
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley #17)
The Leaping by Tom Fletcher
The Death Chamber by Sarah Rayne
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins
Rosamund by Bertrice Small (1st book of Friarsgate Inheritance series)
The Stranger House by Reginald Hill
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
Independent Woman's Lake District Writ by Harriet Martineau
The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift
The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards
Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons by Stephen Cole
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome
A Tapestry of Dreams by Roberta Gellis (1st book of Tales of Jernaeve series)
Funny Farm by Jackie Moffat
Island of Bones by Imogen Robertson (Crowther and Westerman #3)
The Thing on the Shore by Tom Fletcher
Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
Books Set in Derbyshire
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Come Rack Come Rope by Roger LeBlanc
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott
The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer
Jane and the Stillroom Maid by Stephanie Barron (5th Jane Austen Mystery)
Black Dog by Stephen Booth (1st book of Ben Cooper & Diane Fry series)
The Reaper by Steven Dunne
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608 by Mary S. Lovell
Wait for Me!: Memoirs by Deborah Devonshire
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses by Lucy Worsley
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Mostly in Hertforshire. Pemberley's in Derbyshire)
Goodly Creatures: A Pride and Prejudice Deviation by Beth Massey
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll (1st book of Darcy & Elizabeth series)
A Wife for Mr. Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen
The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins (1st book in series)
My Dearest Mr. Darcy: An Amazing Journey into Love Everlasting by Sharon Lathan
The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen
Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley #10)
A Marriage Worth The Earning: ~To Have And To Hold~ by Mary Sherwood
Loving Mr. Darcy: Journeys Beyond Pemberley by Sharon Lathan
An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan (1st book in series)
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street
Buster's Diaries as told to Roy Hattersley by Roy Hattersley
Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell
Remember the Legend by Brooke Burdett
A Woman of Passion by Virginia Henley
Pemberley Shades: A Lightly Gothic Tale of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy by D.A. Bonavia-Hunt
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan
The Slightest Provocation by Pam Rosenthal
Mr. Darcy's Dream by Elizabeth Aston
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Oh My Darling Daughter by Eric Malpass
Books Set in Devon
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (1st Flavia de Luce mystery)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (also set in France)
Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas
All About Love by Stephanie Laurens
The Barefoot Princess by Christina Dodd
The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment by Gilbert Adair
Dead Man's Folly: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Far Distant Oxus by Katharine Hull
A Horseman Riding By by R.F. Delderfield
In The Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
The Little Book of Devon by John van der Kiste
The Saint Meets the Tiger by Leslie Charteris
The Moor by Laurie R. King (4th book in Mary Russell series)
The Punch and Judy Murders by Carter Dickson
Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
Finding the Fox: The Shapeshifter Series, Book 1 by Ali Sparkes (1st book in series)
She Died a Lady by Carter Dickson
Simon by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield
Wycliffe and the Beales by W.J. Burley
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
The Sanctuary Seeker by Bernard Knight (1st Crowner John Mystery)
The Exeter Blitz by David Rees
Murder in Devon by Maggi Andersen
The Turning Of The Tide by Liz Shakespeare
The Last Templar by Michael Jecks (1st book of Knights Templar series)
Books Set in Dorset
Persuasion by Jane Austen (partially)
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Awakening by S.J. Bolton
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
The Breaker by Minette Walters
The Black Tower by P.D. James (Adam Dalgliesh #5)
Before the Fact by Francis Iles
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey
Dancing with Mermaids by Miles Gibson
Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
A Dream of Wessex by Christopher Priest (AKA The Perfect Lover)
Lady In Waiting by Rosemary Sutcliff
Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse
Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner
Land Girls by Angela Huth
Pavane by Keith Roberts
The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
The Private Patient by P.D. James (Adam Dalgliesh #14)
The Skull Beneath The Skin by P.D. James
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
Wolf Solent - A Novel by John Cowper Powys
A Crowning Mercy by Bernard Cornwell (1st book in series)
An Innocent Bride by Betty Neels
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt
The Stolen Princess by Anne Gracie (1st book of Devil Riders series)
The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken
Scandalous by Candace Camp
The Black House by Paul Theroux
Knight's Move by Jennifer Landsbert
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
Books Set in County Durham
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
The Jarrow Lass by Janet MacLeod Trotter (1st book in Jarrow series)
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall by Paul Torday
The Taming of the Rake by Kasey Michaels
The Killer by Colin Wilson
The Duke's Agent by Rebecca Jenkins
Sweet Wells by Elizabeth Gill
The Black Velvet Gown by Catherine Cookson
Object of His Desire by Ava March (1st book of Somerville Park series)
The Hartlepool Monkey by Sean Longley
Billy Elliot by Lee Hall
High Moor by Graeme Reynolds
Books Set in Essex
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (1st book in series)
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (AKA The Shifting Fog)
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
Death at Bishop's Keep by Robin Paige (1st Victorian Mystery)
Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
Cargo of Eagles by Margery Allingham
Cover Her Face by P.D. James (1st book of Adam Dagliesh series)
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case by Agatha Christie
Flambards by K.M. Peyton (1st book of Flambards series)
Johnny Mackintosh And The Spirit Of London by Keith Mansfield
Midget by Tim Bowler
The Minotaur by Barbara Vine
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
Mr. Britling Sees it Through by H.G. Wells
Secret Water by Arthur Ransome (Swallows and Amazons #8)
Essex Boys: A Terrifying Expose of the British Drugs Scene by Bernard O'Mahoney
The Girls of Winston Wizardial-The Meeting by Sarah Simpson
Dying Flames by Robert Barnard
Nobody's Son by Frank D. Keeling
Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley #9)
Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory (1st book in series)
A Life For A Life by Tim Ellis
A Certain Wolfish Charm by Lydia Dare (1st book in Westfield Wolves series)
Books set in Gloucestershire
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
Smack by Melvin Burgess (AKA Junk)
Playing James by Sarah Mason
The Eight of Swords by John Dickson Carr
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Thinks . . . by David Lodge
Whispering Back by Nicole Golding
Jump! by Jilly Cooper
A Place in My Country: In Search of a Rural Dream by Ian Walthew
A Postcard from the Cotswolds by Jan Dobrzynski
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
His at Night by Sherry Thomas
Winterset by Candace Camp
Heiress in Love by Christina Brooke (1st book of Ministry of Marriage series)
The Accidental Proposal by Matt Dunn
Castaway by Laurel Ames
Questions Of Trust by Sam Archer
Ritual by Mo Hayder
Books Set in Hampshire
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas (1st book of Wallflowers series)
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
To Catch an Heiress by Julia Quinn (1st book of Agents of the Crown series)
A Summer to Remember by Mary Balogh
Guilty Pleasures by Laura Lee Guhrke (1st book of Guilty Series)
Attica by Garry Kilworth
The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat
The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd
Landfall: A Channel Story by Nevil Shute
The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
Perfect Love by Elizabeth Buchan
The Tinder Box by Minette Walters
What Happened to the Corbetts by Nevil Shute
Red Leech by Andy Lane (2nd book in Young Sherlock Holmes series)
The House at Satan's Elbow by John Dickson Carr (Dr. Gideon Fell #21)
His Captive Lady by Anne Gracie
The Devil's Mark by Joanna Makepeace
Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S. Forester
Matty Groves by Deborah Grabien
The Temporary Wife by Mary Balogh
Books Set in Herefordshire
On the Black Hill: A Novel by Bruce Chatwin (Also set over border in Wales)
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (1st book in series)
The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee
Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale
Shades of the Past by Kathleen Kirkwood
The Wine Of Angels by Phil Rickman (1st book of Merrily Watkins series)
White Rose by R. Garcia y Robertson
The Anniversary by Ann Swinfen
A Country Life: At Home in the English Countryside by Roy C. Strong
Happy Accidents by Tiffany Murray
The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant
The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
Books Set in Hertfordshire
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan (1st book of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy)
An Arranged Marriage by Jan Hahn
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey #13)
Call Of The Heart by Barbara Cartland
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
Ghostly Hertfordshire by Damien O'Dell
Moon Cottage Cats by Marilyn Edwards
New Boy by William Sutcliffe
A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré (George Smiley #8)
Books Set in Isle of Wight
England, England by Julian Barnes
Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper (AKA Secret of the Seventh Son)
The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd
Mary of Carisbrooke: The Girl Who Would Not Betray Her King
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
Rosie by Alan Titchmarsh
The Least Likely Bride by Jane Feather
Books Set in Kent
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Last Orders by Graham Swift
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen
Spider's Web by Agatha Christie
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear (5th in series)
A Duty To The Dead by Charles Todd
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt
Doctor Who: The Algebra of Ice by Lloyd Rose
The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
Doctor Syn by Russell Thorndike (1st book in series)
The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr
The Darling Buds Of May by H.E. Bates
The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells
Kipps by H.G. Wells
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Emmuska Orczy
The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Spring Fever by P.G. Wodehouse
The Two Pound Tram by William Newton
Loving A Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney (1st book of Lost Lords series)
The Bride Thief by Jacquie D'Alessandro
Her Majesty's Men by Marquesate (1st book in series)
Red Roses Mean Love by Jacquie D'Alessandro
Season for Temptation by Theresa Romain
The Christmas Countess by Adrienne Basso
The Gamekeeper's Lady by Ann Lethbridge (1st book in Rakes in Disgrace series)
Becket by Jean Anouilh
Books Set in Lancashire
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Gold by Chris Cleave
Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George (6th book of Inspector Lynley series)
A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James (1st book of Fairy Tales series)
Blood Brothers by Willy Russell
The September Girls by Maureen Lee
Across the Mersey by Annie Groves (1st book in Campion series)
Echoes Across The Mersey by Anne Baker
Redburn by Herman Melville
Stags and Hens by Willy Russell
The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney (1st book in series)
Soul Seduction by Lori Toland
Wedding Tiers by Trisha Ashley
The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan de Hartog
Killer Instinct by Zoë Sharp (1st Charlie Fox series)
Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
Snatched by Mandasue Heller
Locked In by Kerry Wilkinson
Mill Girl: A Victorian Girl's Diary, 1842-1843 by Sue Reid
The Front by Mandasue Heller
The Nightmare Fair by Graham Williams
Confessions of an Improper Bride by Jennifer Haymore (1st book of Donovan Sisters)
Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
The Curry Mile by Zahid Hussain
Elidor by Alan Garner
Fame Is The Spur by Howard Spring
How Soon Is Never? by Marc Spitz
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood
Manchester Slingback by Nicholas Blincoe
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
Needle In The Groove by Jeff Noon
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
Vurt by Jeff Noon
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
Enchanted Boy by Richie McMullen
The Grave by James Heneghan
Mr. American by George MacDonald Fraser
Patsy of Paradise Place by Rosie Harris
Teardrops on My Drum by Jack Robinson
Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge
A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
Books Set in Leicestershire
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (1st book in series)
Scenes From Provincial Life by William Cooper
Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
To the Grave by Steve Robinson
The Right to an Answer by Anthony Burgess
The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh
The Marriage Spell: A Novel by Mary Jo Putney
Engaged in Sin by Sharon Page
Taming Tessa by Brenda Hiatt
Books Set in Lincolnshire
Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
The Alehouse Murders by Maureen Ash (1st Templar Knight Mystery)
Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen
Get Carter by Ted Lewis (AKA Jack's Return Home)
Tod Of The Fens by Elinor Whitney
A Little Bit Wild by Victoria Dahl (1st book of York Family series)
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor
The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies
John Marchmont's Legacy by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Books Set in Middlesex (Metro London)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1984 by George Orwell
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
One Day by David Nicholls
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (1st book in Shopaholic series)
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (1st book in The Infernal Devices series)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (1st book of Blue Ant series)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Drood by Dan Simmons
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Soulless by Gail Carriger (1st book of Parasol Protectorate series)
Saturday by Ian McEwan
London by Edward Rutherfurd
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Kraken by China Miéville
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (1st book of Shades of London series)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud (1st book of Bartimaeus Trilogy)
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd
London Under Midnight by Simon Clark
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch(AKA Rivers of London) (1st book of Peter Grant series)
London Fields by Martin Amis
What Happens in London by Julia Quinn
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
From Hell by Alan Moore
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman (1st book in Sally Lockhart series)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (1st book in series)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
Neverwhere by Mike Carey
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Lost by Gregory Maguire
Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel by William Boyd
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss (1st book of Benjamin Weaver series)
Victorian London by Liza Picard
London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25 by Iain Sinclair
Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
The Diary Of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
The Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Possession
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The Duke And I by Julia Quinn (1st book of Bridgertons series)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (1st book in series)
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (1st book in series)
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly (1st book in series)
The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne (1st book in series)
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean (1st book in series)
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (1st book of Tommy and Tuppence series)
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn (1st book of Lady Julia series)
At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
Numbers by Rachel Ward
Love Only Once by Johanna Lindsey (1st book of Malory Family series)
The Lions Lady by Julie Garwood (1st book of series)
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
More Books Set in London
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note by Mark Twain
The 12:30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Child of Jago by Arthur Morrison
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Awesomely Ally's World by Karen McCombie (1st book in series)
Amelia by Henry Fielding
Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestley
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
The Antipope by Robert Rankin
The Apes Of God by Wyndham Lewis
Arabella by Georgette Heyer
The Artist's Widow by Shena Mackay
Auriol; Or, the Elixir of Life by William Harrison Ainsworth
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden
The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Blind Faith by Ben Elton
Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (1st book of Sir John Fielding series)
Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess (1st book of Blood series)
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
The Bodysnatchers by Mark Morris
The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future by Will Self
The Book Of Ultimate Truths by Robert Rankin
The Borrible Trilogy by Michael De Larrabeiti
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
Breakfast In The Ruins: A Novel Of Inhumanity by Michael Moorcock
The Bride of Newgate by John Dickson Carr
The British Museum Is Falling Down by David Lodge
Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
The Cabinet of Light by Daniel O'Mahony
The Calligrapher: A Novel by Edward Docx
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Candy by Kevin Brooks
The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress by Fanny Burney
The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
The Chelsea Murders by Lionel Davidson
The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Chinese Agent by Michael Moorcock
A Choice of Enemies by Mordecai Richler
The Citadel by A.J. Cronin
The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards
Close To Home by Deborah Moggach
Cocksure by Mordecai Richler
Cold Is The Grave by Peter Robinson
Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer
Conceit by Mary Novik
Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith (1st book in series)
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
The One You Love by Paul Pilkington
What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris
Books set in Norfolk
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Absolutist by John Boyne
The Accidental by Ali Smith
Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam by M.C. Beaton
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
A Change Of Climate by Hilary Mantel
The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (1st Ruth Galloway Mystery)
The Custard Boys by John Rae
The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rosie Rushton
Devices And Desires by P.D. James
Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick
Goodbye Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton
Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
Handles by Jan Mark
Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (maybe - author lives there)
House of the Lost by Sarah Rayne
Mr. American by George MacDonald Fraser
The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley
Restoration by Rose Tremain
The Wake of the Dragon: A Steampunk Adventure by Jaq D. Hawkins
The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond
Thunder And Lightnings by Jan Mark
Adam wrote: "I would add The Wake of the Dragon: A Steampunk Adventure to Norfolk although they also travel through London and the south of England. The most activity takes place in Norwich, Wisbech and Colches..."Thanks!
Books set in Northhamptonshire
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Althorp: The Story of an English House by Charles Spencer
Brendon Chase by B.B.
Hiding the Elephant by Mira Kolar-Brown (1st Simon Grant Mystery)
Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White
Pollard by Laura Beatty
Smokey: The Very Loud Purring Cat - Guinness World Record Holder by Smokey
Stoned: A Memoir of London in the 1960s by Andrew Loog Oldham
Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s by Andrew Collins
Books set in Northumberland
Another World by Pat Barker
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves (1st book in Vera Stanhope series)
The Day of the Sardine by Sid Chaplin
The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
Light Shining In The Forest by Paul Torday
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
Ocellus by Andrew McEwan
Ruined City by Nevil Shute
Skellig by David Almond
The Stars Look Down by A.J. Cronin
The Throwback by Tom Sharpe
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Books set in Nottinghamshire
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Bows Against the Barons by Geoffrey Trease
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian by Kathryn Lasky
The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan
Lady Of Sherwood by Jennifer Roberson
Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
Lonely Hearts by John Harvey (1st book in Charles Resnick series)
Maid Marian by Elsa Watson
Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock
A Midsummer's Nightmare by Garry Kilworth
A Most Unsuitable Man by Jo Beverley
Odds on Favorite by Maryann Myers
Outlaw by Angus Donald (1st book of Angus Chronicles)
The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
Robin Hood by Alexandre Dumas
Robin Hood: According to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
Robin Hood And Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers A Canterbury Tale Told In Verse
Robin: Lady of Legend by R.M. ArceJaeger
Rough Treatment by John Harvey
Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest by Nancy Springer
Swimming Up the Sun: A Memoir of Adoption by Nicole J Burton
The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story by Charlotte Hawkins
To Fear a Painted Devil by Ruth Rendell
The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D.H. Lawrence
The White Peacock by D.H. Lawrence
Books set in Oxfordshire
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (1st book of His Dark Materials Trilogy)
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martínez
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
Three Men in a Boat: by Jerome K. Jerome
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman
The Calder Game by Blue Balliett
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin (1st book of Gervase Fen series)
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1st book of Oxford Time Travel series)
Doctor Who: Asylum by Peter Darvill-Evans
Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison (1st book in series)
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite by Michael De Larrabeiti
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
Jill by Philip Larkin
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter (1st book in Inspector Morse series)
The Last Puritan by George Santayana
Loss and Gain by John Henry Newman
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
The New Republic: Culture, Faith, And Philosophy In An English Country House
Oxford Blood by Antonia Fraser
Oxford Blood by Georgiana Derwent (1st book of The Cavaliers series)
Princess Diana's Revenge by Michael De Larrabeiti
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis
Robert Elsmere by Mary Augusta Ward
The September Society by Charles Finch
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
The Unquiet Bones by Melvin R. Starr (1st book of Hugh Singleton Chronicles)
The Wool-Pack by Cynthia Harnett
The Writing on the Hearth by Cynthia Harnett
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
Books set in Rutland:
Basil Street Blues: A Memoir by Michael Holroyd
An English Murder by Louise Doughty (AKA Honey-Dew)
Lady Robyn by R. Garcia y Robertson
Set in Stone by Robert Goddard
Uppingham by the Sea: A Narrative of the Year at Borth by John Huntley Skrine
Books set in Shropshire:
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (1st book of Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series)
Another Broken Wizard by Colin Dodds
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury: A King, a Prince, and the Knight Who Betrayed Their Dynasty
Dawn Wind by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark by Lawana Blackwell
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
How to Tame a Willful Wife by Christy English
Lottie Biggs is (not) Mad by Hayley Long (1st book in series)
The Morville Hours: The Story Of A Garden by Katherine Swift
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull
Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Property of A Lady by Sarah Rayne
The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
River Deep by Priscilla Masters
Season of Darkness by Maureen Jennings
A Shrosphire Lad by A.E. Housman
Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse (1st book of Blandings Castle series)
Uncommon Vows by Mary Jo Putney
A Woman of Passion by Virginia Henley
Books set in Somerset
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (also Barbados)
Aunts Aren't Gentleman by P.G. Wodehouse (AKA The Cat-Nappers)
Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
Belinda Goes to Bath by Marion Chesney
The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
British Summertime by Paul Cornell
Celandine by Steve Augarde
The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story by Phil Rickman
The Curse-Maker by Kelli Stanley
Every Eye by Isobel English
Ferney by James Long
Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer
A Finer End by Deborah Crombie
The Fudges in England: Being a Sequel to the Fudge Family in Paris by Thomas Brown
Funeral Music by Morag Joss
Glastonbury by Brian L. Porter
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
Glastonbury Tor by LeAnne Hardy
Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett
The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig (Pink Carnation #7)
Mom's List: A Mother's Life Lessons to the Husband and Sons She Left Behind
Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington
Night at the Mocking Widow by Carter Dickson
One Day at a Time: A Memoir by Susan Lewis
The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
The Raven's Knot by Robin Jarvis
Song to Wake to by J.D. Field (1st book of Levels series)
The Various by Steve Augarde
The Wives of Bath by Wendy Holden
Books set in Staffordshire
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett (1st book in Clayhanger Family Trilogy)
The Confession of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters (15th Brother Cadfael mystery)
The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
Strange Blood: A Crime Novel by Lindsay Ashford
There's Something in the Woods by Nick Redfern
The True Crime Files of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle
Books set in Suffolk
Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress by Fanny Burney
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
At the Firefly Gate by Linda Newbery
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bungay Castle by Elizabeth Bonhote by
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die by Sheila Radley
Cunt by Stewart Home
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
The Dig by John Preston
The Dream House by Rachel Hore
A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
Finding Myself by Toby Litt
The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth
The Killing Joke by Anthony Horowitz
Legacy by Alan Judd
Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham
The Measby Murder Enquiry by Ann Purser
Missing Persons by Nicci Gerrard
No Night is Too Long by Barbara Vine
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
The Sea House by Esther Freud
The Taming of the Duke by Eloisa James
Unnatural Causes by P.D. James
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome
Books set in Surrey
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Back Home by Michelle Magorian
The Battle Of Dorking: Reminiscences Of A Volunteer by George Tomkyns Chesney
The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth
Gallia by Menie Muriel Dowie
Necropolis by Basil Copper
No Mistaking Corker by Monica Edwards (1st book in Punch Bowl Farm series)
Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernières
Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Surrey State of Affairs by Ceri Radford
Tainted Tree by Jacquelynn Luben
The Watsons by Jane Austen
Books set in Sussex
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (1st book in Mary Russell series)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
The Collector by John Fowles
Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Master by Colm Tóibín
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Sanditon by Jane Austen
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
The Valley Of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
Wideacre by Philippa Gregory (1st book in trilogy)
Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R.D. Blackmore
Berg by Ann Quin
The Body on the Beach by Simon Brett (1st book in the Fethering series)
The Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin
The Comforters by Muriel Spark
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi
Doomsday by Warwick Deeping
The Dragon's Eye: The Dragonology Chronicles, Volume One by Dugald A. Steer
The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook by Matt Dunn (1st book of Ed & Dan series)
The Family from One End Street: And Some of Their Adventures by Eve Garnett
Foxes' Oven by Michael De Larrabeiti
The Golden Hour by William Nicholson
The Gorse Trilogy: The West Pier, Mr Stimpson And Mr Gorse, Unknown Assailant
Green Darkness by Anya Seton
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay
The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells
Inside Mister Enderby by Anthony Burgess
The Last Post by Ford Madox Ford
The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Man Within by Graham Greene
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot by Angus Wilson
My Idea Of Fun by Will Self
The Mysteries of Verbena House; Or, Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving by Etonensis
One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner
Perfect People by Peter James
Play To The End by Robert Goddard
Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson (1st book of Lucia series)
Quick Service by P.G. Wodehouse
The Secret Intensity Of Everyday Life by William Nicholson
The Secret Wife of King George IV by Diane Haeger
The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith
The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner
The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
A Tangled Web by Nicholas Blake
The Two Pound Tram by William Newton
The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
The Vintage Teacup Club by Vanessa Greene
Visitors from London. by Kitty Barne
Wish for a Pony by Monica Edwards (1st book of Romney Marsh series)
Books set in Warwickshire (Including West Midlands)
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
Ballet for Drina by Jean Estoril (1st book in Drina series)
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses by David Lodge (Also set in California)
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor (Also set in Ireland)
Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
In Bed With A Stranger by Mary Wine (1st book of McJames series)
Kenilworth by Walter Scott
The Little Grey Men by B.B.
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Living by Henry Green
Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin
Nice Work by David Lodge
Pale Moon Rider by Marsha Canham
Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis
Rebuilding Coventry by Sue Townsend
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
Shakespeare Unbound: Decoding a Hidden Life by René Weis
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
A Sister for Margot by Emma Clark Lam
A Test Of Wills by Charles Todd (1st Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery)
Third Watch by Steelwhisper (1st book in Outsider series)
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
Urge to Kill by J.J. Franklin
What Hetty Did by J.L. Carr
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Zero Control by Lori Wilde
Books set in Wiltshire
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo (Also set in South Africa)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (1st book of Thursday Next series)
Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth
King Arthur's Place in Prehistory: The Great Age of Stonehenge by W.A. Cummins
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
Love in a Bottle by Zoe Archer
Old Filth by Jane Gardam (Also set in Hong Kong)
Once and Forever by Constance O'Day-Flannery
The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Also World Without End)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
Sight Unseen by Robert Goddard
The Spire by William Golding
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography by Richard Jefferies
The Temporary Wife by Mary Balogh
Books set in Worcestershire
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm by Christopher Cooper
Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Books set in YorkshireER = East Riding, NR = North Riding, WR = West Riding
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (NR)
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (NR)
All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot (NR)
All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot (NR)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (NR)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (NR)
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines (WR)
My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson (WR)
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace (1st book in Red Riding Quartet) (WR)
The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer
Saville by David Storey
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (WR)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (WR)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (WR)
The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt (NR)
The 12:30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts
Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
The Baritone Wore Chiffon by Mark Schweizer (ER)
Beneath the Moors by Brian Lumley
Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster (NR)
Best Friends Together by Rosie Rushton (Best Friends series) (WR)
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Bright Day by J.B. Priestley
Confessions Of A Duchess by Nicola Cornick (1st book of Brides of Fortune series)
A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood (WR)
The Damned Utd by David Peace (WR)
The Dark Winter by David Mark (ER)
Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty (WR)
The Education of Mrs. Brimley by Donna MacMeans (1st book of Chambers Trilogy)
Eugene Aram by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Fire in the Heart by Katherine Sutcliffe
Gallows View by Peter Robinson (1st book in Inspector Banks series)
GB84 by David Peace
Granny Was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty (WR)
A Grass Rope by William Mayne
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore (ER)
If the Slipper Fits by Olivia Drake (1st book of Cinderella Sisterhood series)
Inspector French And The Starvel Tragedy by Freeman Wills Crofts
Is Underground by Joan Aiken (ER)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot
James Herriot's Yorkshire by James Herriot
The Jealous God by John Braine
Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
Keeper at the Shrine by Domini Highsmith (1st book in Father Simeon series) (ER)
The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith
The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt (Princes Trilogy)
The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
My Favorite Countess by Vanessa Kelly
My Summer of Love by Helen Cross
Never the Bride by Paul Magrs (NR)
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (WR)
Not Wicked Enough by Carolyn Jewel (1st book of Reforming the Scoundrels series)
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger (NR)
Ours Are the Streets by Sunjeev Sahota (WR)
The Picasso Scam by Stuart Pawson (1st Book of Detective Inspector Charlie Priest)
A Political Romance by Laurence Sterne (ER)
Prince of Magic by Anne Stuart
The Return of the Twelves by Pauline Clarke (WR)
Road to the Dales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad by Gervase Phinn (WR)
Room 13 by Robert Swindells (NR)
The Secrets of the Dead by Malcolm Rose (1st book of Lawless & Tilley series) (WR)
Sacrament by Clive Barker
Shadowmancer by G.P. Taylor (1st book in series) (NR)
Society of Lost Causes by Ophelia Finsen
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Sovereign by C.J. Sansom (ER)
A Summons From Yorkshire by Ava Stone
Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean (Love by Numbers series)
To Tempt a Scotsman by Victoria Dahl (1st book in Huntington series)
Torc of Moonlight by Linda Acaster (ER)
The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
Vet in Harness by James Herriot
Vimanarama by Grant Morrison (WR)
We Wove a Web in Childhood: The Brontes at Home by Ruth Thomas (WR)
Whitby Vampyrrhic by Simon Clark (NR)
The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis (1st book in series) (NR)
A Woman Of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford (1st book in Emma Harte Saga)
Yes Sister, No Sister: My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire by Jennifer Craig
Yorkshire by Lynne Connolly (1st bookof Richrd and Rose series)
The Yorkshire Pudding Club by Milly Johnson (WR)
You're Coming With Me Lad: Tales Of A Yorkshire Bobby by Mike Pannett
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