Blogs in June 2021

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain 19th June 2021

One of Waterstones Best Books to Look Forward to in 2021 The Bookseller’s Book of the Month A Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight “I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had...

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The Keeper of Songs 19th June 2021

* A missing singer * A doomed love story * A family split by secrets & lies 1967: Enigmatic young folk singer Molly Marrison disappears on the cusp of fame.2002: Silva is working as a housemaid at Chatsworth House...

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Deep Secret 8th May 2021

Grace put out her hand, almost touching the mirror. Her image did the same. ‘There’s another world in there.’ ‘We could float in and out of it.’ Deep in a Derbyshire valley live two girls, twins, so alike that...

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The Quickening 26th March 2021

Country houses can be such spooky places and Rhiannon Ward who has written the Derbyshire crime novels shows us one with her new novel The Quickening. Her gothic novel is about Clewer Hall. It is the country house shutting...

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Little Monsters 17th December 2020

When I was thirteen, my father killed my mother . . . How do you recover from something like that? Carol never quite does. Sent to live with her aunt, who barely tolerates her presence, Carol is grief-stricken and...

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