
1st Edition 2017. Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historic Fiction 2018; Winner of A Roger Deakin Award and made into a succesful BBC Drama. Issued in paperback and hardback. Published by Bluemoose Books Ltd of Hebden Bridge in a small print run. Part of the Calder Valley where this fictionised true story took place. From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' - the forging of coins. The book is fine and very bright. Contents very good. The complete wrapper is fine and bright.