Pearl of Pit Lane 18th May 2020
‘Put me to work on the pit lane, would you? Is that all you think I’m worth?’ When her mother dies in childbirth, Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt, Annie Grafton. Annie loves Pearl like...
Blogs in May 2020
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon 18th May 2020
When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket, Ada Davidson, housekeeper of the wealthy McNally family’s home, the Uplands, takes her into her care. Sworn to secrecy about the...
The Offing 9th March 2020
A Times Book of the Year An i Book of the Year A Reading Agency Book of the Year A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 ‘Book at Bedtime’ An Observer Pick for 2019 One...
100 Days on Holy Island. A Writer’s Exile. 24th January 2020
A quirky, moving account of the author’s self-imposed exile to Holy Island, a remote island off the Northumberland coast, cut off from the mainland twice a day. Peter Mortimer is a playwright and poet, and this is his personal...
The Man on the Street 7th November 2019
It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an argument between two...
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