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Men I've loved before - Adele Parks - great novel set in Chiswick.

I live in Tyne and Wear and I enjoyed reading Sheila Quigley's books, quite a few of them follow the same policewoman and names of characters appear in each book. The author so aptly describes the setting that I know exactly where she is talking about. I was in a book shop one day and discovered she was doing a book signing so I went to talk to her, a very down to earth, lovely lady.

I live in the South Lakes...the setting for Elizabeth George. Perceiving the Lie. This is several stories combined in one book. Would have benefitted from being less complicated! She describes my area as always dark and raining. This is so untrue that I was quite cross! She uses quite a few of the interesting houses in her novel but moves them around the region. This is the author's prerogative but when you know the area, it is quite unsettling. Usually, I love her books but this one left me feeling very frustrated and resentful. Not her best one.

Newcastle upon Tyne so David Almond would be my choice. He has written for adults and children. Skellig is probably his best known work and won both Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author.

The Penge Papers by Brian Wright. Who coincidentally was also my French teacher's husband

I'm in Kent so would be The Darling Buds of May

Alnwick Northumberland all the Vera books are set in this area

I'm near Dartford, Kent - I lived in Dartford for 20+ years and moved just a couple of miles down the road. The book that springs to mind that featured Dartford was 'Miss Carter's War' by Shelia Hancock; it was a good book to read and nice to recognise places. Come to think of it, I won my copy of 'Miss Carter's War' from Mumsnet

I live quite near to Woking which is featured in War of the Worlds by HG Wells

The Cadfael books by Ellis Peters are set in Shrewsbury later made into a TV series starring Derek Jacobi and by the way I am a librarian so this book would be very interesting for me to compare notes.

Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee - set in Herefordshire. A splendid book and a splendid county!

I live in Faversham and I don't think it has been featured in any book. It gets the occasional mention like "I drove down the M2 past Faversham", but that's it!

We live in Cowdenbeath, it has featured in several of the Ian Rankin books. This is because Ian attended Beath High School in Cowdenbeath - in fact he was in my husband's class!

Can you imagine a time when time had to be bought? From 1836 until 1940 the Belville Family 'sold' the time using an 18th century pocket watch using it to check the time at the Royal Observatory and taking it to City companies and local firms. This true but unbelievable story is set, of course, in Greenwich but also in my hometown of Charlton where Maria and her daughter Ruth Belville lived. It tells of her fight to keep up the business as a woman after the death of her husband and the walk across London to bring the time. I'd thoroughly recommend 'Ruth Belville - The Greenwich Time Lady' by David Rooney.

Mine are Hobson's Choice, as it is set in Salford, where I live,, and Light's Over Manchester, where I was born, both brilliant books, my copies are a little worn now, through reading a lot

Birmingham - David Lodge (thinly disguised Birmingham University) and Jonathan Coe (Longbridge complete with Red Robbo) spring first to mind, There are many more.

My town is Stoke on Trent otherwise known as "The Potteries" and I would like to nominate Arnold Bennets 'Anna of the Five Towns'. The five Towns of Stoke on Trent are made up of Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Longton and Stoke but Bennet omitted Fenton which is really the 6th Town and is known as the forgotten town, as he thought that Five Towns sounded better than six! He does disguise the names of the towns a little - e.g. Burslem becomes Bursley, but it is a victorian novel set in the early 20th century and evokes many memories for me of my early years. (Although I'm not that old!)

Croydon ????????????????

Sandwich - although historical, I can't remember it featuring in any book whatsoever. E. Kent is quite boring to most, thought I love it. I do know however that Henry V massed his fleet on the way to Harfleur for the Agincourt thing, so perhaps it was mentioned in the Shakespeare play!

Peter James sets his best-seller Roy Grace detective thrillers around Hove & Brighton, just up the road from me. He even went to interview a witness in the road where my daughter lives

"Woollyback" by Alan Fleet is set in Winsford Cheshire .. brings back so many memories of growing up here in the 60's and 70's.

Hiding From the Light by Barbara Erskine is set in Manningtree and Mistley very near where I live and is about the terrors that The Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins brought to the area in Cromwell's time.

Samuel Pepys Diaries - 5 minutes from where I live is a road named after him.

John Innes of compost fame conservationist - I walk in the John Innes Conservation Area with our local walking group once a week. Features in books on horticulture:

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Poldark's Cornwall by Winston Graham. I am lucky enough to live right in the middle of the Cornish mining area, and near to many of the places that you will read about or see on TV if you have been following the series.

Pendle - Whistle Down The Wind