Luke and Jon, by Robert Williams (Faber, £6.99) Following his mother's death in a car accident, 13-year-old Luke and his toymaker father move to another town where they live in a ramshackle house on top of a fell.
Since there are no other places in Britain which bear this name, despite country-wide tree felling, it is much more likely to be because it lies on the eastern descent of a Fell, which rises from Team Valley in the west to Low Fell, then still rising to High Fell, before descending down to the Tyne through Felling.
Click here to see Banksy's new works But his latest piece, which shows a small beaver gnawing on a felled 'No Parking' sign, has been covered up with cardboard by enterprising locals who are now charging Banksy-loving visitors money to see it.
He said aloud, "Me, I wouldn't never git hitched to no fell-on-a-hatchet female".
The absence of the rule has been blamed for the free fall in bank stocks during the market rout, since there was nothing to halt the shorts from piling on as a stock fell.
On a 700-acre fell farm near Coniston, you can expect encounters with creatures that could inspire anthropomorphic tales – collie dogs and turkeys roam the yard; a Herdwick sheep grazes placidly in the front field.
Her double bassist tries to sound like a theremin on 'Fell Down Fast'; Laura Reid, her cello collaborator, simulates feedback.
We have a cottage on the fell we have had for 42 years; it was, when we bought it, two-up, two-down.
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On one of those occasions he tripped on a loose brick and fell.
