{"id":19052,"date":"2026-04-19T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:11:03","slug":"more-fantasy-supernatural-books-set-in-stoke-on-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/04\/19\/more-fantasy-supernatural-books-set-in-stoke-on-trent\/","title":{"rendered":"More fantasy \/ supernatural books set in Stoke-on-Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new fiction book set in Stoke-on-Trent, in Sideway to be precise. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedaread.com\/books\/Waiting-for-the-Moon-and-the-Mole-9781835972878.aspx\">Waiting for the Moon and the Mole<\/a><\/em> (2025) is a substantial children&#8217;s story by poet John Leneghan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/waitingforthemoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/waitingforthemoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19053\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We used to walk from our housing estate in Blurton to this childhood place of adventure. [At Sideway] there were stationary railway wagons, disused railway tracks, a canal, a farm called Whites Farm (but most folk used to call it Whiteys Farm), open fields with brooks with countless blackberry bushes, climbing trees, rope swings, woods and fishing ponds. It was just the perfect children&#8217;s playground. A natural playground, should I say. [The book imagines the Sideway canalside] animals of today, trying to survive the many changes in this place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author is also the author of a book of poems about the various &#8220;ghosts of Stoke-on-Trent&#8221;, a book also new to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-with-ghosts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-with-ghosts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-with-ghosts.jpg 1104w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-with-ghosts-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-with-ghosts-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-with-ghosts-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently on eBay, <em>Dance With the Ghosts of the Past<\/em> seems to be a discarded library book. Local libraries really shouldn&#8217;t be discarding books like this, they should be sending them to the Local Collection at Keele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new fiction book set in Stoke-on-Trent, in Sideway to be precise. Waiting for the Moon and the Mole (2025) is a substantial children&#8217;s story by poet John Leneghan. We used to walk from our housing estate in Blurton to this childhood place of adventure. [At Sideway] there were stationary railway wagons, disused railway tracks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19057,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions\/19057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}