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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish-born doctor and writer, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. In 1901 he spent a fortnight walking Dartmoor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, researching what became The Hound of the Baskervilles, the only Holmes story set on a real, named moor.
Devon novelist and non-fiction author whose fiction and Swim, Walk & History guides are inspired by Dartmoor's legends and rivers.
The first book in Helen JR Bruce's folkloric faerie tale trilogy, in which the Wild Hunt is summoned and an ancient power stirs on Dartmoor.
The second book in Helen JR Bruce's Heat of the Hunt trilogy, carrying the story from Dartmoor to Ireland and the world beneath the hills.
The second volume of Trevena's Dartmoor trilogy, published in 1908 between Furze the Cruel and Granite.
The third volume of Trevena's Dartmoor trilogy, following Furze the Cruel and Heather - published in 1909 and, in his own words, standing for the moor's enduring strength.
Pen name of Ernest George Henham (1870-1948), whose Dartmoor trilogy - Furze the Cruel, Heather and Granite - are early 20th-century novels of moorland life peopled by "strange and often grotesque characters."
A tale of the Cornish coast: the tyrannical old squire Hender Gaverock and his two sons, and the ruin that follows the rebellious Constantine.
John Herring, his marriage to the delicate Mirelle, and the rough rustic world of the West Country around them.
