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Follow the Moon and Stars

Featuring:

Dave Ablitt, Kristina Adams, Catherine Aird, Naomi Alderman, Meena Alexander, Zayneb Allak, Maria Allen, David Almond, Hans Christian Andersen, Joe Andrews, Norman Angell, Maya Angelou, Jane Anger, Narvel Annable, Amanda Arbouin, Lee Arbouin, Michael Argyle, Simon Armitage, Catharine Arnold, Chris Arnot, WH Auden, Jane Austen, Vicki Bertram, John Betjeman, Christopher Bigsby, Jasbinder Bilan, Max Dalman Binns, Ottwell Binns, Max Blagg, William Blake, Edith Bland, Lawrence Block, Enid Blyton, Stephen Booth, William Booth, Anthony Boucher, David Bowie, Sydney Box, Elizabeth Baguley, Philip James Bailey, Robin Bailey, Thomas Bailey, Roy Bainton, Panya Banjoko, Alan Baker, Paul Baker, Hongwei Bao, Pat Barker, Linda Barnes, Emma Barnett, Andy Barrett, JM Barrie, John Beckett, David Belbin, Gary Bell, Jo Bell, Kathleen Bell, Marco Bellocchio, Alan Bennett, Arnold Bennett, Thomas Berdmore, Michael Bracewell, Malcolm Bradbury, Richard Bradford, Rebecca Bradley, Emily Brand, Ken Brand, Simon Brett, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, John Potter Briscoe, Cornelius Brown, Pitman Browne, Alan Brownjohn, Rosslyn Bruce, Ruth Bryan, Emrys Bryson, Rebecca S Buck, Adrian Buckner, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Gladys Bungay, Graham Caveney, Tony Challis, Jessie Chambers, Raymond Chandler, Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Chatterton, GK Chesterton, Noam Chomsky, Agatha Christie, Russell Christie, Winston Churchill, Sir John Clanvowe, John Clare, John Stuart Clark (Brick), Lynda Clark, John Cooper Clarke, Lilleth Clarke, Susanna Clarke, John Cleese, Colin Clews, Wayne Burrows, Samuel Butler, Derrick Buttress, AS Byatt, Lord Byron,  Bill Bryson, Philip Callow, John le Carré, Liz Carney-Marsh, Barbara Cartland, Ken Coates, Peter Cochran, Jonathan Coe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wilkie Collins, Stephan Collishaw, Arthur Conan Doyle, Chris Cook Cann, Paul Cookson, Helen Cooper, Wendy Cope, Noel Coward, Thomas Cranmer, Helen Cresswell, Andy Croft, Noel Dilke, Jo Dixon, Robert Dodsley, Maura Dooley, Joan Downer, Roddy Doyle, John Drinkwater, Melanie Duffill-Jeffs, Carol Ann Duffy, Maureen Duffy, Bob Dylan, Sue Dymoke, Michael Eaton, David Edgley, Rowena Edlin-White, David Edwards, George Eliot, TS Eliot, Janice Elliott, John Emerton, Rowland Emett, Jonathan Emmett, Richmal Crompton, Anthony Cropper, Gillian Cross, Helen Cross, Rebecca Cullen, Joan Easdale, Mary Ann Cursham, Simon Cutts, Sarah Dale, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Alan Dawson (Jacques Morrell), Cecil Day Lewis (Nicholas Blake), Vivien Dayrell-Browning, Charles Deering, Daniel Defoe, Susie Dent, John Derry, Colin Dexter, Charles Dickens, Ruth Fainlight, Paul Farley, Christy Fearn, Elaine Feinstein, Marty Feldman, Jasper Fforde, Catherine Fisher, Robert Fisk, Ian Fleming, Alan Fletcher, Raymond Flynn, Ken Follett, EM Forster, Caroline Bell Foster, Kate Fox, Katherine Frank, Benjamin Franklin, Rich Goodson, Anne Goodwin, Nadine Gordimer, Frances Gore, Ray Gosling, Sue Grafton, James Graham, Gwen Grant, Andrew Graves, Robert Graves, Adrian Gray, Dulcie Gray, Zane Gray, Graham Greene, Germaine Greer, Norma Gregory, Frank Griffin, Elly Griffiths, Cathy Grindrod, Alan Guest, Stephen Haddelsey, Matt Haig, Madge Hales, John Foster Frazer, Michael Frayn, Sam Fuller, Neil Fulwood, Frances Fyfield, Rose Fyleman, Freddy Fynn, Faith Gakanje, Winifred Marshall Gales, Sheelagh Gallagher, Graeme Garden, Rosie Garner, Robert Garioch, Lenford Alphonso (Len) Garrison, Mark Gatiss, Abigail Gawthern, Evelyn Gibbs, Denis Gifford, Ann Gilbert, Sidney Giles, Eric Gill, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Glaister, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lise Gold, Spencer Timothy Hall, Duncan Hamilton, Sophie Hannah, Thomas Hardy, Joanne Harris, Robert Harris, Noel Harrower, Dorothy Hartley, Clare Hartwell, John Harvey, Nicki Hastie, William Hatfield (Ernest Chapman), Spike Hawkins, Lucinda Hawksley, Colin Haynes, Jaq Hazell, W Carew Hazlitt, Seamus Heaney, John Hegley, Thomas Helwys, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Ernest Hemingway, Pippa Hennessy, Adrian Henri, George Henty, Robert Herrick, George Hickling (Rusticus), David (Stickman) Higgins, Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Enid Hilton, Edward Hind, Muriel Florence Hine, Michael Hirst, Victoria Hislop, Merlin Holland, Stephen L Holland, Alan Hollinghurst, John Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Sam Hope, Mary Howitt, Richard Howitt, William Howitt, Michelle (Mother) Hubbard, Kathryn Hughes, Evan Hunter (Ed McBain), Lucy Hutchinson, Catherine Hutton, William Hutton, Aldous Huxley, Eric Idle, Washington Irving, William Ivory, Leonard Jacks, Kevin Jackson, Lisa Jackson, Mick Jackson, Sarah Jackson, Maxim Jakubowski, Clive James, Peter James, Alan Jenkins, Troy Jenkinson, Jerome K Jerome, Jane Jerram (Jane Elizabeth Holmes), Ruth L Johns, BS Johnson, Ben Jonson, Spencer Jordan, Graham Joyce, Rachel Joyce, Lucy Joynes, Alan Judd, Joshua Judson, Ken Kamoche, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Siddharth Katragadda, Patrick Kavanagh, Campbell Kay, Jackie Kay, Joyce Lesley Keating, Francis King, Giselle Leeb, Paris Lees, Thomas Legendre, Clive Leivers, Dennis Lemon, Mark Lemon, Hilda Lewis, Maxine Linnell, Clare Littleford, David Livingstone, Noel Lloyd, Ralph Lloyd-Jones, Desmond King-Hele, Charles Kingsley, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Carolyn Kirby, Naomi Klein, Laura Knight (Laura Johnson), Sarah (Rain) Kolawole, Caroline Lamb, LD Lapinski, Philip Larkin, Birger Larsen, DH Lawrence, TM Logan, Christopher Logue, Ivory Longley, Lady Ada Lovelace, Peter Lovesey, RD Low, Edward Joseph Lowe, Stephen Lowe, John Lucas, Pauline Lucas, George MacBeth, Fiona MacCarthy, Robert Macfarlane, Mhairi Macfarlane, Robert Machray, Compton Mackenzie, Henry Maddock, Rod Madocks, Maurice Magnus, Sarah Maguire, Eve Makis, Mufaro Makubika, Eric Malpass, David Mamet, Emma Mardlin, Ngaio Marsh, Adam Mars-Jones, GJ Martin, Andy Maslen, Lila Matsumoto, Somerset Maugham, Armistead Maupin, Xavier Mayne, Val McDermid, Gavin and Oskar McIntosh, Ian McMillan, Colum McCann, Nigel McCrery, Roger McGough, Jimmy McGovern, Pat McGrath, Jon McGregor, Lisa Mckenzie, Jenny McLeod, Hollie McNish, Jonathan Meades, Arthur Mee, Robert Mellors, Paul Mendez, Stanley Middleton, Arthur Miller, Claude Miller, Kei Miller, Thomas Miller, Robert Millhouse, Stuart Mills, AA Milne, John Milton, Adrian Mitchell, Naomi Mitchison, Leanne Moden, Deborah Moggach, Nicola Monaghan (Niki Valentine), Bill Moody, Alison Moore, Beth Moran, Caitlin Moran, Michael Morpurgo, Jackie Morris, Blake Morrison, Helen Mort, Peter Mortimer, Andrew H Morton, Walter Mosley, Kate Mosse, Andrew Motion, Julie Myerson, Daljit Nagra, Suniti Namjoshi, Trevor Negus, AS Neil (Aaliyah), E Nesbit, Maureen Newton, Trish Nicholson, Robert Nieri, Henry Normal, Ben Norris, Deirdre O’Byrne, Bill Oddie, Geoffrey Oldfield, Eliza S Oldham, Betty Maxine, Tom Pickard, Paul A Pickering, Helena Pielichaty, John Shadrach Piercy, Elizabeth Pigot, Kathy Pimlott, Dave Pitt, Nigel Planer, Samuel Plumb, Charles Plumbe, Alexander Pope, Peter Porter, Christopher Pressler, Martin Priestman, VS Pritchett, Alexander Pope, Beatrix Potter, George Powe, JB Priestley, James Prior (Kirke), James Orange, Baroness Orczy, Joe Orton, George Orwell, Philip Osment, Sally Outram, Thomas Paine, Frank (Baggy) Palmer, Sara Paretsky, Chris Parker, Thomas Parkyns, Martin Parnell, Brian Patten, Tom Paulin, Constance Penswick Smith, Gareth Peter, Nikolaus Pevsner, Nigel Pickard, Sheenagh Pugh, Ian Rankin, Onjali Raúf, Slavomir Rawicz, Paula Rawsthorne, Nicola Davison Reed, Ruth Rendell, Jean Rhys, Christopher Richardson, Peter Richardson, Séan Richardson, Lady Laura Ridding, Sylvia Riley (Carol Lake), Stella Rimington, Rosemary Robb, Cecil Roberts, Michèle Roberts, Celia Robertson, Thomas William Robertson, JB Robinson, Nicci Robinson (Robyn Nyx), Michael Rosen, Carrol Rowe, Jane Rule, AE Russell, Bertrand Russell, Frances Ryan, Manjit S Sahota, Thomas Sanders, George Saunders, John Brough Scott, Walter Scott, Tony ScuphamBilton, Thom Seddon, John Edward Bernard (Jack) Seely, Will Self, Shreya Sen-Handley, Dr Seuss, Dolly Sewell, Miranda Seymour, William Shakespeare, Sir Dodds Shaw, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, Percy B Shelley, Norman Sherry, Nevil Shute, Richard Silburn, Alan Sillitoe, Darren Simpson, Tony Simpson, Lemn Sissay, Di Slaney, Kim Slater (KL Slater), Ioney Smallhorne, Richard Smedley, Courtney Alexander Smith, Delia Smith, Freda Love Smith, Michael RD Smith, JC Snaith, Mahsunda Snaith, Mahendra Solanki, Robert Southey, Roderick Speer, Herbert Spencer, Bridie Squires, Michael Standen, Peter Stanford, Colin Stanley, Beth Steel, Debra Stephenson, Clare Stevens, Sharon RM Stevens, William Stevenson, Sue Thompson, Christopher Thomson, Robert Thoroton, Miriam Toews, JRR Tolkien, Claire Tomalin, Rebecca Tope, Barry Took, Geoffrey Trease, Anthony Trollope, Frances Trollope, Joanna Trollope, CJ Tudor, Gael Turnbull, Mark Twain, Barry Upton, Peter Ustinov, George Vason, Victoria Villasenor (Victoria Oldham), Francis Vivian (Arthur Ashley), Bram Stoker, Michael Stokes, Tom Stoppard (Tom Straussler), Richard Stott, Lytton Strachey, Lady Arbella Stuart, William Stukeley, Henry S Sutton, Jenny Swann, Julian Symons, Robert Tansey, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Tatchell, Bertrand Tavernier, Andrew Taylor, Megan Taylor, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Frances Thimann, Sue Thomas, Marie Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, George Walker, James Walker, Peter Walker (Nicholas Rhea), Joan Wallace, John Waller, William Wallett, Hugh Walpole, Joanna Walsh, Minette Walters, Pemberton de Wanderer, Edward Ward, James Ward, Simon Ward, Rory Waterman, Gail Webb, Ernest Weekley, Matthew Welton, Angus Wells, Donald E Westlake, Jo Weston, Dorothy Whipple, Phil Whitaker, Cathy White, Henry Kirke White, Amanda Whittington, Oscar Wilde, Georgina Wilding, Leah Wilkins, Jo Willett, Alan Williams, Joanna Williams, Tennessee Williams, Leslie Williamson, Colin Wilson, Glenis Wilson, Godfrey Winn, Jackie Winter, Jeanette Winterson, PG Wodehouse, Nick Wood, Gregory Woods, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Keith Wright, WB Yeats, Jackie Yelland, Kerry Young, Benjamin Zephaniah, Alice Zimmern, Ztan Zmith.

Read Follow the Moon and Stars to find out:

·        How a Nottingham woman inspired George Eliot’s Adam Bede

·        Why Philip Larkin always wore a DH Lawrence T-shirt when mowing the lawn.

·        Which James Bond novel features Nottingham Castle and Sherwood Forest.

·        Who took Agatha Christie for tea in Nottingham’s Arboretum.

·        Which Nottingham writer’s books were bombed by the Nazis.

·        Why Quentin Tarantino said that “Nottingham is a really cool city”.

·        Which Nottingham writer appears in an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

·        Why Charles Dickens was called to Ada Lovelace’s deathbed.

·        Who was known as Nottingham’s Robinson Crusoe.

·        How Alan Sillitoe met his wife in a Nottingham bookshop.

·        Who was Shakespeare’s Nottingham Knight.

·        Which Nottingham man was the first person to write a defence of universal religious freedom in English.

·        Which Nottingham man did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle write a poem about.

·        How a Nottingham man wrote the first scientific work on dentistry.

·        Where in Notts was the writer of "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" born.

·        Which Nottingham poet was the first Briton to explicitly write about evolution.

·        Which Nottingham writer takes credit for the Doctor Dolittle stories being published.

And much more...

Over 400 pages. Over 200 images. In paperback and hardback. Published by Five Leaves Publications and available now!