Yorkshire book club meeting November 1st!

I was trying to think of Yorks. based fiction so came up with a list off the internet -- but sounded like most were bodice-rippers 
But here's a list of Yorks. authors (besides the Bronte sisters):
Barstow, Stan
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Priestlley, J.B.
Braine, John.
Herriot, James.
Drabble, Margaret.
Harris, Joanne.
Bennett, Alan.

I was trying to think of Yorks. based fiction so came up with a list off the internet -- but sounded like most were bodice-rippers 
But here's a list of Yorks. authors (besides the Bronte sisters):
Barstow, Stan
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Priestlley, J.B.
Braine, John.
Herriot, James.
Drabble, Margaret.
Harris, Joanne.
Bennett, Alan.

Thanks BostonDiner!!!

Ladies, I will start the new thread on Wednesday when all the suggestions are in   I am going to look at my book list on Amazon right now and pick a few! 

Just to add to your list of Yorkshire authors (quite a few with books set in Yorkshire as well)

Phyllis Bentley
J P Priestley (some of his novels might look a bit dated, but his book 'An English Journey'(not a novel) about touring industrial England during the depression, is excellent. May be difficult to get hold of though).
Laurence Sterne

and contemporary:

Sophie Hannah
Simon Armitage
Blake Morrison
Glyn Hughes
Richard Hoggart
David Nobbs
David Peace

and books/authors with a Yorkshire setting:

Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte
The Northern Clemency Philip Hensher
Dracula