Books set in Devon, United Kingdom

Devon

• 1927

  Tarka the Otter

  Tarka la loutre

  1927 · Henry Williamson · novelRiver Torridge, Devon

  An otter’s life and death along the Taw and the Torridge, from the moor to the sea.

• 1902

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Le Chien des Baskerville

  1902 · Arthur Conan Doyle · crimeDartmoor, Devon

  A family curse, an escaped convict and a great black dog on the Dartmoor mires.

• 1869

  Lorna Doone

  1869 · R. D. Blackmore · novelExmoor, Devon · also Somerset

  1670s: a farmer’s son loves a girl from the outlaw clan in the hidden valley on Exmoor.