The television series "Emmerdale" is the story of life in the village of Beckindale, and this book illustrates it with photographs of the village and landscape, maps, and shots of the actors in character describing key episodes and story-lines.
Piers Dudgeon is a British author of more than thirty works of nonfiction. After a decade as a London editor, he founded a publishing company working with writers including John Fowles, Catherine Cookson, Peter Ackroyd, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Conran and Ted Hughes, later writing acclaimed literary biographies and cultural histories set in Yorkshire.