Blogs in May 2021

The Miner’s Lass 12th May 2021

‘You’re a Dinsdale lass, Ruby. Nothing and no one keeps us lot down.’ A life of poverty in a cramped pit cottage is all that seventeen-year-old Ruby Dinsdale has known. Even with her father and younger brother working at...

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Gibbous House 4th May 2021

Moffat, a murderous and magniloquent criminal unexpectedly inherits an expansive estate in Northumbria. Modern irony brought to the rich texture of the classic gothic novel.

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The Book of Newcastle (Reading The City) 11th April 2021

The original Northern Powerhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne has witnessed countless transformations over the last century or so, from its industrial heyday, when Tyneside engineering and innovation led the world, through decades of post-industrial decline, and underinvestment, to its more...

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The Serpent Sword 29th January 2021

AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King Edwin. He must learn...

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A Time for Swords 29th January 2021

When the Vikings attack, a novice monk’s life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy’s new historical adventure. Lindisfarne, AD793. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the...

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