Top Twenty Books That Rock EssexNominee

Given by Essex Book Festival

20 Works 194,715 Books 3,583 Reviews ½ 4.0
For our 20th Birthday celebrations we asked the people of Essex to nominate their favourite books that are either based or partially set in Essex, in partnership with Essex Libraries and BBC mostrar mais Essex.


The Top Twenty was launched at our Secret Water themed opening weekend in Harwich, by BBC Essex on board the wonderful LV18, and the winner was announced at our Essex Book Club Symposium in Chelmsford towards the end the festival. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (1), Nominee (20)
Year Awarded:
2019

Nominee 20

Obra
Secret Water (1939) de Arthur Ransome
Hamford Waters
The Oaken Heart (1941) de Margery Allingham
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
The Peregrine (1967) de J. A. Baker
Essex Coast
Mehalah : a story of the salt marshes (1983) de S. Baring-Gould
Mersea
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) de Agatha Christie
Essex Country House
Heart of Darkness (1899) de Joseph Conrad
Tilbury Dock
Sharpe's Regiment (1986) de Bernard Cornwell
South Essex
Moll Flanders (1722) de Daniel Defoe
Colchester
Barnaby Rudge (1841) de Charles Dickens
Chigwell
Hiding from the Light (2002) de Barbara Erskine
Mistley
The Turn of the Screw (1898) de Henry James
Essex country house
Strange Magic (2017) de Syd Moore
Manningtree
Starter for Ten (2003) de David Nicholls
Southend-on-Sea
1984 (1949) de George Orwell
Colchester
The Essex Serpent (2016) de Sarah Perry
Colchester
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937) de Arthur Ransome
Drácula (1897) de Bram Stoker
Purfleet
The Forgotten Seamstress (2013) de Liz Trenow
Braintree
The Witchfinder's Sister (2017) de Beth Underdown
Manningtree
The War of the Worlds (1898) de H. G. Wells
Essex Coast

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