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Myers Literary Guide:
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The North-East
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ANTHONY POWELL (1905 - 2000) There is no evidence that the eminent novelist ever spent time in the North East, but a section of his late novel The Fisher King (1986) is set on Hadrian's Wall. Puck of Pook's Hill by Kipling (q.v.) is invoked and the countryside round about is described sympathetically though without inspiration. There is some heavy-handed (and rather dubious) lecturing on Romano-British history, which however, includes the salutary observation that on the far side of the Wall lay other Britannic tribes - certainly not Picts.
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