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Stoke on Trent Arnold Bennett Anna of the five towns and Clayhanger are set in Stoke among others he wrote.

Resistance is Futile by Jenny Colgan, I live in Ipswich and the book is set in Cambridge, Ipswich and Felixstowe, not her usual subject but loved it anyway!

A Song For Issy Bradley by Carys Bray. This book features Southport and talks about the bumpy coastal road,which is still very bumpy.

Howard's End by EM Forster is based on his childhood home in Stevenage. The house is called Rooks Nest and is in a quiet lane, away from the bustle of the new town. When a film was made of the novel, the original was deemed too small so a house in Berkshire was used.

There are many books featuring my home town of Bletchley due to the role of Bletchley Park in World War Two.
The one book I'd mention is The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay as it looks at the lives of those who worked there. What I find fascinating is the pressures they were under living in this secret community, not able to tell friends and family and those who they lived with what they were working on.
The book even goes into the food they ate and their leisure pastimes; fascinating.
We owe these people so much.

Grew up in Bexhill on sea, East Sussex which was the B in ABC murders by Agatha Christie.

Diana gabaldon's Cross Stitch is bases in Inverness - my nearest town.

Reflections of Bognor Regis by Sylvia Endacott contains so many memories and wonderful pictures of seaside days gone by. Fantastic book.

The Tottenham Outrage by M H Baylis. The second in a series of three books featuring the journalist/detective Rex Tracey. All these books are set in and around Haringey and dig into local stories and cultures. In this one his investigation into what seems to be a religiously-based murder crosses into the true story from 1909 where a robbery went wrong and ended in a chase across Tottenham and two deaths.

Rex gets the same buses that I do.

Diggindoris - I know the author - she used to be a volunteer for the Library Housebound service when I was in charge of it!

Tiger Bay Blues by Catrin Collier set in Cardiff - a brilliant read

Burnley, Mist over Pendle

My town is Newquay in Cornwall, where the book Blue by Lisa Glass is based.

Oxford seems a very dangerous place to live given the number of authors setting their crime novels in the city with Colin Dexter's Morse novels being perhaps the best known. Veronica Stallwood has her Kate Ivory novels and Peter Tickler sets his police novels in the Cowley area of Oxford but crime is an age old problem as Ian Morson's Falconer series shows, set in Medieval Oxford. The murder count through the ages must be phenomenal.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh...I live in Oxford.

I am from Tyne and Wear and as a child Catherine Cookson lived just a few doors away from my late grandad. She wrote extensively about our region. Too many books to name them all but most of her books contain "real" characters and were set in and around the places she and my ancestors grew up in. Her book The Fifteen Streets was sadly only too realistic. Set in 1910 in the poverty stricken streets of Tyneside, it shared the often shared a common theme of "above stairs" and "below stairs" or rather people who were who they were, because of circumstances.

I live in Hull and I love to read Valerie Wood's books which are based around Hull and area in olden days.

I live in Leigh, I don't think there is any poet featured yet. If there is it will be the coal mining, Pennington flash....

I live in the granite city of Aberdeen from where the crime novels by Stuart MacBride originate

Friern Barnet in North London and it is mentioned in Umbrella by Will Self. Strangley it was written just as we were struggling to save Friern Barnet Librarby from our barbaric council

I live in North Cornwall so the series of Poldark novels would be my chosen books

i live in grimsby which is featured in The Grimsby Book Of Days by Lucy Wood

I live in Shepperton which occasionally features in old films due to the local film studios (Anyone remember Genevieve?). Two books mentioning Shepperton are Three men in a boat and Oliver Twist where Oliver is led through Shepperton by Bill Sykes. Coincidentally the book of the film "Oliver!" was filmed at Shepperton Studios.

I think it was Adele Parks' Spare Brides which had a character from Middlesbrough in it.... Other than that, I'm pretty sure it's only local writers who feature the town.

I don't live in the South Hams area of Devon, but had many summer holidays in the area, from a child through to middle age and always enjoy books written by Marcia Willett. A good author and her story locations often bring back memories of happy times spent there.