30 Years of Emmerdale

by Lance Parkin

Emmerdale is one of Britain's longest-running soaps, second only to Coronation Street, and one of the longest-running programmes anywhere in the world. From the Sugdens to the Dingles, from Emmerdale Farm to Emmerdale, this unique celebration of 30 fabulous years of the award-winning soap provides a complete overview of all the major storylines and characters, loads of interesting facts and quotes from the programme, hundreds of glorious colour photographs and interviews with the creator, the writers and producers. With features about all the births, marriages and deaths, family trees plus information about the beautiful countryside and the lovely village in which Emmerdale is filmed, 30 Years of Emmerdale is a fitting tribute to an enduring and much-loved British institution.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2002

About the author

Lance Parkin is an author who has written professional Doctor Who fiction since the 1990s. He is one of the few authors to write for both the 1963 and 2005 version of the programme — though much of his fiction has actually been based on the 1996 iteration. Indeed, he was notably the first author to write original prose for the Eighth Doctor in The Dying Days. He was also the author chosen to deliver the nominal 35th anniversary story, The Infinity Doctors, and the final volume in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range, The Gallifrey Chronicles. More recently, he has written for the Tenth Doctor in The Eyeless.

He is further notable for his work with Big Finish Productions, where he is arguably most known for writing the Sixth Doctor adventure, Davros.

Outside of Doctor Who, he has written things like Warlords of Utopia and (with Mark Jones) Dark Matter, a guide to the author Philip Pullman.

Reviews

[Holly Englefield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anyone who is a fan of Emmerdale will absolutely love this book. It is really informative and has loads of information about the characters, storylines and fictional locations within the show