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Walls, a Minster and Viking ghosts under the shopping streets: York compresses two thousand years into a walkable center. Fantasy writers claim it most eagerly. Clockwork Princess wound it up; Sansom's Sovereign conspired in Tudor York. Open York on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in York

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Clockwork Princess

Clockwork Princess

by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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Danger and betrayal, love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the breathtaking finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal…

Setting: ['York, Yorkshire, England', 'London, England']Time Period: 1878; Victorian era
Sovereign

Sovereign

by C.J. Sansom
book

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission by his rebellious subjects in York.Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant…

Setting: ['York, Yorkshire, England']Time Period: 1541; Reign of Henry VIII
Vampire, Interrupted

Vampire, Interrupted

by Lynsay Sands (Goodreads Author)
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IT WAS A CASE SHE COULD SINK HER TEETH INTO...After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She's training to be a private investigator, and her first…

Setting: ['London, England', 'York, Yorkshire, England', 'Italy']Time Period: 1955
My Dad's Christmas Date

My Dad's Christmas Date

SPI International-Goldfinch-Highfield Grange Studios-MSR Media
movie

It’s Christmas and the charming city of York home to Jules 16 and her Dad David is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways David and Jules’ relationship is no different from that of most fathers and their…

Setting: York, UKTime Period: 2020
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

by Tony Horwitz
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When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one…

Setting: ['Appomattox Court House, Appomattox, Virginia (United States)', 'Manhattan, New York City, New York (United States)', 'Antietam Creek (United States)', 'Hardin County, Tennessee (United States)', 'Cemetery Ridge (United States)', 'Pennsylvania State House (United States)', 'Monument Avenue (United States)', 'Fredericksburg, Virginia (United States)', 'Lincoln, Alabama (United States)', 'Prince William County, Virginia (United States)', 'Corydon, Indiana (United States)', 'Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)', 'Fort Sumter, South Carolina (United States)', 'Salisbury Prison (United States)', 'Guinea Station, Virginia (United States)', 'Spotsylvania County, Virginia (United States)', 'Prince William County, Virginia (United States)', 'Sharpsburg, Maryland (United States)', 'Chickamauga, Georgia (United States)', 'Marblehead, Massachusetts (United States)', 'Charleston, South Carolina (United States)', 'Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)', 'Fort Wagner, South Carolina (United States)', 'Charleston, South Carolina (United States)', 'Charleston, South Carolina (United States)', 'Charleston, South Carolina (United States)', 'Morris Island (United States)', 'Kingstree, South Carolina (United States)', 'York, Maine (United States)', 'Columbia, South Carolina (United States)', 'Christian County, Kentucky (United States)', 'Todd County, Kentucky (United States)', 'Guthrie, Kentucky (United States)', 'Waco, Texas (United States)', 'Ruby Ridge, Idaho (United States)', 'Franklin, Tennessee (United States)', 'Guthrie, Kentucky (United States)', 'Clarksville, Tennessee (United States)', 'Cemetery Ridge (United States)', 'Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia (United States)', 'Washington, D.C. (United States)', 'Washington, D.C. (United States)', 'Vicksburg, Mississippi (United States)', 'Vicksburg, Mississippi (United States)', 'Vicksburg, Mississippi (United States)', 'Vicksburg, Mississippi (United States)', 'Antietam, Maryland (United States)', 'Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (United States)', 'Salisbury, North Carolina (United States)', 'Atlanta, Georgia (United States)', 'Fitzgerald, Georgia (United States)', 'Elba, Alabama', 'Montgomery, Alabama (United States)', 'Selma, Alabama (United States)', 'Southern States (United States)']Time Period: 1861; Civil War
Amy Snow

Amy Snow

by Tracy Rees
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Left to perish on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy has never known love, never known family.Reluctantly given shelter at nearby Hatville Court, she is despised by the masters and servants alike.The beautiful Hatville…

Setting: ['Twickenham, London, England (United Kingdom)', 'Hatville Court, Ladywell, Enderby (United Kingdom)', 'Bath, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)', 'York, Yorkshire, England']Time Period: 2004
Love's Reckoning

Love's Reckoning

by Laura Frantz (Goodreads Author)
book

On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his…

Setting: ['York, Pennsylvania (United States)']Time Period: 1785
Dark Souls

Dark Souls

by Paula Morris
book

Welcome to York, England.Mist lingers in the streets.Narrow buildings cast long shadows.This is the most haunted city in the world. . . .Miranda Tennant arrives in York with a terrible, tragic secret. She is eager to…

Setting: York, England, UKTime Period: 1999
Beyond Time

Beyond Time

by Elizabeth Marshall
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Please don't buy this book if you have already downloaded 'Haunting Grace', 'Changing Grace' and 'Saving Grace'. This book is a consolidation of these three titles.Having endured years of an abusive marriage, Grace…

Setting: York, UK; Scotland, UKTime Period: 2012
When Fate Dictates

When Fate Dictates

by Elizabeth Marshall
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'When Fate Dictates' is a full length novel of approximately 90 000 words and is book one in the 'Highland Secret Series'. Book two of the series is called 'Beyond Time' and the third is 'Entwined' both of which are due…

Setting: Scottish Highlands, UK; York, UKTime Period: 1692

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