Coast, moorland, iconic landmarks... the perfect setting for a success story.Byline: BARBARA ARGUMENT argument@eveninggazette.co.uk stories from top writers giving visitors a great new reason to check out Teesside. A bright idea to create a literary trail featuring famous local authors, and the settings for their novels, is tempting tourists to come and see us. Best-selling chic-lit author Freya North - a proud adopted Teessider who launched the tour - says it will woo readers worldwide. "Teesside is my second home," she said. "I am an ambassador for the people, the place, its fantastic history - and even its lemon tops!" Freya's newest novel, Secrets, is set in Saltburn. In it, lovers meet on top of Middlesbrough's iconic Transporter Bridge A transporter bridge (also ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge) is a type of movable bridge that carries a segment of roadway across a river. The gondola is slung from a tall span by wires or a metal frame. . "It's only been out for a couple of weeks, but an Italian lady has already emailed me to say she booked a holiday in Saltburn after reading it," she said. Now visitTeesvalley is hoping she won't be the only visitor to come to a region rich in literary connections. Tourist bosses want them to follow in the footsteps of the region's top writers and famous Andy Capp This article is about the cartoon character. For the 1988 sitcom, see Andy Capp (TV series). Not to be confused with German curler Andy Kapp. Andy Capp is a long-running British comic strip character created by Reginald Smythe, seen in the cartoonist Reg Smythe Reginald "Reg" Smythe (July 10, 1917, Hartlepool – June 13, 1998, Hartlepool) was a British cartoonist who created the Andy Capp comic strip. Born Reginald Smyth (without the "e"), the son of Richard Oliver Smyth, a shipyard worker, and his wife, Florence . Freya, who describes herself as "posh Southern totty Tot´ty a. 1. Unsteady; dizzy; tottery. For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must. - Spenser. ", fell hopelessly in love with the region and Boro husband Andy, whose mum still lives in Marton. "My second home is definitely up here," said 41-year-old Freya, mum to Felix, seven, and Georgia, six. Another of her novels was set in Stokesley and Great Ayton Coordinates: Great Ayton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire on the edge of the North York Moors in England. The name Great Ayton is thought to derive from Ea-tun, tun meaning farm and 'ea' meaning river. and it was after beating a fear of heights to climb the Transporter that she chose it to star in Secrets. "I am passionate about telling people about Teesside," said Freya. "It is an undiscovered corner of the UK despite the Tees Valley having such charm and a unique character. " There is so much here to use as a setting in a book - the coast and moors and the industrial landscape too. I love Saltburn and one of my very favourite places in the world is Runswick Bay." * Find out more about the trail at www.visitteesvalley.co.uk/site/literary-trail of Who's who: The key characters * FREYA NORTH, left, best-selling author of 10 books - two set in the Tees Valley.. * ADELE PARKS, left, from Yarm, chic-lit author of eight books. * PHILIPPA GREGORY, right, a journalist turned author, lived in Hartlepool but is now based on a farm near Stokesley. Author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl', a runaway best-seller, which was adapted for TV and a Hollywood film staring Scarlett Johansson. * LEWIS CARROLL who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland “Alice in Wonderland” redirects here. For other uses, see Alice in Wonderland (disambiguation). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written lived in Croft-on-Tees as a child. His Cheshire Cat was inspired by a carving in the local church where his father was Rector. * PAT BARKER, right, Booker prize-winning author of the Ghost Road, was born in Thornaby. * BARRY UNSWORTH also a Booker prize-winner went to Stockton Grammar School.. * REG SMYTHE, Hartlepool creator of the flat-capped anti-hero cartoon character Andy Capp, above, read by 175 million people, translated into 13 languages. * RICHARD MILWARD, below, born in Middlesbrough, raised in Guisborough, whose first novel Apples set on Teesside was critically acclaimed.. CAPTION(S): FOLLOW THE PLOT: Freya North, whose latest novel is set in Saltburn and features the Transporter, top, launches the literary trail tourism drive on Saltburn beach encouraging visitors to sample the backdrop for real Pictures by DOUG |
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