Blogs in January 2025

Forgiveness 14th January 2025

It is 1863. ELIZABETH ‘BESSIE’ GOODWIN, a young woman of conscience and spirit, lives with her grandfather, CAPTAIN FRANCIS GOODWIN, at Wigwell Grange in Derbyshire. In August Bessie is stabbed to death by GEORGE TOWNLEY, to whom she had...

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The Shrouded Path 21st December 2024

The past won’t stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the...

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The Hemlock Cure 7th April 2023

In a wholly original take on the Eyam story, Joanne Burn’s elegant prose, rich in authentic detail, results in a rewarding and timely read — SARAH BURTON, author of ‘The Strange Adventures of H’ Lyrically written, The Hemlock Cure...

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The Fell 26th February 2023

‘A tense page-turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting’ – Emma Donoghue ‘Her work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be’ – The Times At dusk on a November evening in...

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The Other Guest 24th June 2022

One year ago, Leah’s twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, returning to Italy for the first time since Amy’s death, Leah is shocked to find her family seem...

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