A book with no jokes in it. Well, hardly any.

Every so often a person writes a book in which nobody's pies talk and no vampire receives a letter from HMRC. This is that book.

Places in Cheshire with a View is a full colour walking book from Run Adventurer, the other thing I do, which mostly involves standing on hills with a camera and getting rained on. It walks the rim of the Cheshire bowl: the red sandstone hills above the Mersey, the long ridge of the Sandstone Trail, and the gritstone edges where the county climbs into the Peak District, all the way up to Shining Tor.

Twenty hills, each with the walk to the top, what you're looking at when you get there, the history, the rock and the folklore. Every route has a QR code that takes you to the map, the film and the GPX on runadventurer.co.uk.

It costs £21.99, because it is printed in proper colour on proper paper, one copy at a time, by Lulu. Allow a week or two. Put it in the same basket as a novel and you only pay the postage once.

If you've read the novels and wondered whether the places are real, they are, and this is how you get to the top of them. Take a flask.