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Discovering Scarfolk is a guide to all aspects of Scarfolk, a fictional northern English town trapped in the 1970s. Scarfolk was created by writer and designer Richard Littler. It was originally based on the website Scarfolk Council.

Publication
Ebury Publishing ' s editorial director Sarah Lavelle acquired the British English, Commonwealth English, and Europe English language rights for Scarfolk Council from literary agent Juliet Pickering at the literary agency Blake Friedmann.

In an interview with British magazine The Bookseller, Lavelle stated "Richard [Littler]'s created an extraordinary world where every image prompts a double-take – it's clever, it's dark and it's very funny. I grew up in the same era and it's all terrifyingly real to me."

In a guest blog for The Daily Telegraph, author Littler said "Discovering Scarfolk attempts to guide you through the darkness by making light of the contradictions and it promises not to unnerve you. Well, not too much anyway."

Plot
Discovering Scarfolk covers the "frenzied archive of Daniel Bush, whose sons 'disappeared' in Scarfolk in 1970."

Reception
Boing Boing ' s co-editor Cory Doctorow said "[Discovering Scarfolk] looks to be absolutely genius."

Digital Arts reviewed Discovering Scarfolk favorably with "We've seen so many blogs turned into books that it should probably be its own genre, but Discovering Scarfolk is one of the few to stand on its own and deserve to be more than a ill-conceived Christmas present."

Starburst gave Discovering Scarfolk nine out of ten stars calling it "a hilarious novel filled with so-creepy-it’s funny illustrations and a relentlessly silly back story."