For #SundayMorningBookChat this week let’s celebrate books set in our own backyards! I loved Danny Chung by @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social set in Birmingham! And I read the Rotters Club years ago in Secondary school. What books are set where you live and does it add something for you personally? - ThreadSky

slatterymr.bsky.social • 74 days ago

For #SundayMorningBookChat this week let’s celebrate books set in our own backyards! I loved Danny Chung by @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social set in Birmingham! And I read the Rotters Club years ago in Secondary school. What books are set where you live and does it add something for you personally?

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anotherjules.bsky.social•74 days ago

Boy in the Tower is based in SE London, and the high rise buildings there, so really resonates with our children in central Croydon.

Plus, it’s an awesome book!

slatterymr.bsky.social•74 days ago

SUCH a good book! I find the children love anything that they can relate to.

hfj0108.bsky.social•74 days ago

I lived in the next village from Philippa Pearce while I was a child and visited her garden by the river lots of times (our goat was her nanny goat’s daughter!). The settings of her books are so familiar and evoke wonderful memories of that time. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit

slatterymr.bsky.social•74 days ago

Wow how picturesque 😍

barbaraevav.bsky.social•74 days ago

Thank you, Tom! I'll share your choices for Birmingham as I live here too. 😊

robcrossley4.bsky.social•74 days ago

Love this idea, Tom! Teaching in Manchester, this one hits hard, and beautifully.👍

slatterymr.bsky.social•74 days ago

Of course!!!! Looking forward to the second!

mariannedoherty.bsky.social•74 days ago

I love Maisie Chan too and ‘Keep Dancing…’ is set in Glasgow. I also love Victoria Williamson and Lindsay Littleson’s books. But particularly local for me is the wonderful Margaret McDonald who went to my son’s school and whose brilliant YA debut Glasgow Boys is partially set in East Kilbride.

jacquisydney.bsky.social•74 days ago

Mr S is from EK - I’ll have to check that out! x

slatterymr.bsky.social•74 days ago

Oh awesome! Love Lizzie chu Too! Love Glasgow! When I visited I found myself saying ‘I could live here’

mariannedoherty.bsky.social•74 days ago

Aye, apart from the relentless rain it’s pretty great. 😁

slatterymr.bsky.social•74 days ago

Oh awesome! Love Lizzie chu Too! Love Glasgow! When I visited I found myself saying ‘I could live here’

sallywrites.bsky.social•73 days ago

Loved Danny Chung!

vonprice.bsky.social•74 days ago

Another great question Tom! I have to give a shoutout to local author @emcarrollauthor.bsky.social and my favourite of all her books #StrangeStar part of which is set locally
#UkKidLit #KidLitUk

slatterymr.bsky.social•74 days ago

Oooo I’ve never read it Veronica. What is it about?

vonprice.bsky.social•74 days ago

A fictional re-imagining of the story behind the writing of Frankenstein. Some of the story is set in a real house in Somerset, now an NT property (the house burned down). It’s a great story for Yr 6 as they so often study Frankenstein in Yr 7 or 8.

maisiechanwrites.bsky.social•68 days ago

My new book is set in Liverpool so anyone living there might like it! I mention a few landmarks (and make up some stuff too!)

melissacreate23.bsky.social•68 days ago

@lteacher123.bsky.social

slatterymr.bsky.social•74 days ago

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jacquisydney.bsky.social•74 days ago

I’ll go for Phil Hickes’s Shadowhall Academy series which are over the border in Suffolk and an adult book, Tombland by C. J. Sansom which is set in Norwich during the reign of Edward VI. I can’t say I enjoy books set locally more but I do enjoy recognising places - it helps me to picture them x

karenwallee.bsky.social•74 days ago

I have to shout out @dansmithauthor.bsky.social books which are often local, also @rosswelford.bsky.social whose books are set at the coast just down the road. Of course there's David Almond too.

tobebooks.bsky.social•42 days ago

To saying nothing of them being a stonking reads. 🫶🤩

my niece is a full blown adult who works for national grid and she looks out for @rosswelford.bsky.social books even now. She’s requested one as her wedding present from me.

rosswelford.bsky.social•42 days ago

OMG! I’m very flattered! If you like, send me an email at rosswelford at mac dot com and I’ll sort you out a signed copy 😀

tobebooks.bsky.social•42 days ago

Aww that’s so sweet. Thank you x

dansmithauthor.bsky.social•74 days ago

Thank you! Yes, many are set in and around Northumberland 😄

checkemoutbooks.bsky.social•74 days ago

I do like when you know a location as you have that familiarity. I loved Jo Callaghan’s adult detective series as Solihull was mentioned in book 2 which isn’t far away.

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