Reading Nottingham’s Unread: Republishing James Prior’s Forest Folk

First published in 1901, Prior’s pacy novel is set in Blidworth against a background of the Napoleonic Wars and Luddite riots. It lay unnoticed for many years, although DH Lawrence rated Prior’s work. In 2016, Forest Folk clawed its way into view. How will it fare in the bookshops of 2017? 

Tags: City of Literature, Collected Words, DH Lawrence, DH Lawrence Research Centre, Forest Folk, James Prior, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, reading, tony simpson, writing