Adam Brunskill is a 1952 historical novel by the British writer Thomas Armstrong. It was his fourth novel and as with much of his work focuses on Northern England. Drawing on the tradition of interwar regional writing of the area, it enjoyed significant popularity along with another new Armstrong novel King Cotton.[1] It is the only major work to focus on the lead mining industry of the Yorkshire Dales.[2]

Adam Brunskill
First edition
AuthorThomas Armstrong
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical drama
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons
Publication date
1952
Media typePrint

Synopsis edit

In the 1880s, a young man raised in Spain in the expatriate British mining community of Andalusia returns to his father's native England.

References edit

  1. ^ Russell p.104
  2. ^ Hutchinson

Bibliography edit

  • Hutchinson, Roger. Walking to America. Birlinn, 2013.
  • Russell, Dave. Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination. Manchester University Press, 2004.
  • Snell, Keith. The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000. Routledge, 2017.