Local Authors Top Library Loans

December 25, 2012

Local author, Val Wood, was number one in East Riding Library Service’s top titles last month. Her book, The Harbour Girl, about a young girl struggling to survive and bring up a child in the fishing communities of Scarborough and Hull in the 1880s

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Beverley Author Launches New Novel This Thursday

November 9, 2011

Beverley Author Val Wood launches her brand new novel The Harbour Girl at Waterstone’s, Hull on Thursday 10 th November at 5.30pm. The Harbour Girl is the award-winning author’s seventeenth novel. The romantic saga tells the story of sixteen year old Jeannie, a net mender and herring girl atScarboroughHarbour, just like her Scottish mother. Jeannie meets and falls in love with Harry, a fisherman fromHulland becomes pregnant. Childhood friend Ethan…

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