This month we have new walking guides from Joe Jackson, and number 13 in David Blake’s DCI Tanner series. And from Poppyland we have a history of the Norfolk market town of Watton.
Joe Jackson‘s excellent walking guides to the Northern and Southern Broads have been very popular, and he has been working through and updating for print, some of his guides to long distance paths in Norfolk and Suffolk. Last year he reissued his guides for the Wherryman’s Way and Weavers’ Way, and he has now added the Boudicca Way, which runs from Norwich to Diss, and the Nar Valley Way, which takes walkers from King’s Lynn to Gressenhall, near Dereham.
All of these guides include a selection of shorter circular walks along the most interesting parts of the footpaths, ideal for the more casual walkers among us who are looking for a day walk rather than a long distance trail, and are well illustrated with Joe’s excellent photographs and clear maps.
DCI Tanner is back on the Broads beat with The Bastwick Testament, David Blake’s 13th book in this series. When the body of a local artist is found mutilated inside a five-pointed star, DCI Tanner’s attention turns to the disciples of a Satanic cult. But when the man’s body is discovered to be the cult’s leader, Tanner’s interest is soon drawn to his will, and the five beneficiaries who’ve been named in it. The paperback edition is due for release on the 14th Feb, but you can pre-order it now.
Watton is probably somewhat typical of many rural market towns, with the market bringing in people from all around the area and providing the focus for the town. Watton’s market has existed since the 13th century and this book tells the stories of the men and women who made it what it is: the tradesmen and shopkeepers, businessmen and publicans, yeomen and husbandmen, lawyers and clergymen, craftsmen and labourers, schoolteachers and doctors.
The Weybourne Witches is new fiction set on our North Norfolk coast in the 1600s. Brigid Netherwell is accused of witchcraft and condemned to death in front of her young daughter Willow who vows to record her family’s story. Decades later, twin sisters Myrtle and Marigold Netherwell are forced to confront the dark secrets of the past and the legacy of the Netherwell women… This is published nationally, and has had some very good reviews.
And finally we still have some signed hardback copies of Rob Parker’s excellent new Broads crime thriller, The Troubled Deep. First come, first served!
Details
34 miles from King's Lynn to Gressenhall
| Author | Joe Jackson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 21cm x 14.8cm |
| Pages: | 74 |
| Publisher: | Walking in the Wild |
| ISBN: | 9781917591003 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| RRP: | £7.99 |
36 miles from Norwich to Diss
| Author | Joe Jackson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 21cm x 14.8cm |
| Pages: | 60 |
| Publisher: | Walking in the Wild |
| ISBN: | 9781917591034 |
| Year: | 2025 |
| RRP: | £7.99 |
A DCI Tanner Novel - Book 13
| Author | David Blake |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 19.8cm x 12.9cm |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Publisher: | Black Oak |
| ISBN: | 9781738541829 |
| Year: | 2025 |
| RRP: | £9.99 |
| Author | Andy Reid |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 23.4cm x 15.5cm |
| Pages: | 282 |
| Publisher: | Poppyland |
| ISBN: | 9781869831448 |
| Year: | 2025 |
| RRP: | £14.95 |
| Author | Amber Raven |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 19.8cm x 12.9cm |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Publisher: | Harper Collins |
| ISBN: | 9780008707583 |
| Year: | 2025 |
| RRP: | £9.99 |
Some secrets should stay under the water
| Author | Rob Parker |
| Format: | Hardback/Dustjacket |
| Dimensions: | 23.4cm x 15.3cm |
| Pages: | 368 |
| Publisher: | Raven Books |
| ISBN: | 9781526681904 |
| Year: | 2025 |
| RRP: | £16.99 |
