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The Manningtree Witches

A Novel

by A. K. Blakemore ...

**Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves."This is an intimate portrait of a clever if unworldly heroine who slides from amused observation of the 'moribund carnival atmosphere' in the household ... Read more

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**Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves."This is an intimate portrait of a clever if unworldly heroine who slides from amused observation of the 'moribund carnival atmosphere' in the household
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The Glutton

A Novel

by A.K. Blakemore ...

A New York Times EDITORS’ CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library JournalFrom the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-con.. ... Read more

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A New York Times EDITORS’ CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library JournalFrom the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-con..
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Best British Short Stories 2023

by Nicholas Royle, Alinah Azadeh, David Bevan, AK Blakemore, Gabriel Flynn, Jim Gibson, Lydia Gill, Miles Greenwood, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Philip Jennings, Sharon Kivland, Alison Moore, Georgina Parfitt, Gareth E Rees, Leone Ross, John Saul, D. J. Taylor, Briony Thompson, Matthew Turner, Mark Valentine, David Wheldon ...

Series Book 0 - Best British Short Stories
Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2023 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2022 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.This ... Read more

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Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2023 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2022 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.This
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Bog People

A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror

by Hollie Starling, A.K. Blakemore, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden, Tom Benn, Daniel Draper0 ...

'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this’ ALAN MOORE**'**An absolute treat' ADAM S. LESLIEUnleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voicesA phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old s... ... Read more

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'A masterful collection' MAXINE PEAKE'Astonishing and long overdue, you really need to read this’ ALAN MOORE**'**An absolute treat' ADAM S. LESLIEUnleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voicesA phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old s...
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The Manningtree Witches

by A. K. Blakemore, Ava Pickett ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
'It does not matter what is true, or not true. All that matters is what is written down.'Essex, 1643. In the quiet town of Manningtree, most of the men have gone to fight in the Civil War. With food running out and boredom setting in, seventeen-year-old Rebecca West longs for something, anything to happen.When a tragic incident involving a local boy coincides with the arrival of the mysterious ... Read more

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'It does not matter what is true, or not true. All that matters is what is written down.'Essex, 1643. In the quiet town of Manningtree, most of the men have gone to fight in the Civil War. With food running out and boredom setting in, seventeen-year-old Rebecca West longs for something, anything to happen.When a tragic incident involving a local boy coincides with the arrival of the mysterious
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The Manningtree Witches

by A. K. Blakemore ...

Narrated by Sofia Zervudachi ...

Unabridged

12 hours 44 min

England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices. Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, who ... Read more

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England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices. Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, who
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The Glutton

by A.K. Blakemore ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

11 hours 16 min

A New York Times EDITORS’ CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library JournalFrom the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-con.. ... Read more

$26.99 USD

A New York Times EDITORS’ CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library JournalFrom the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-con..
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Bog People

A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror

by Hollie Starling, A.K. Blakemore, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden, Tom Benn0, Daniel Draper1 ...

Narrated by Hollie Starling, Jennifer Saayeng2, Isobel Wood3, Charlie Hopkinson4, Vincent Shaw5, Catrin Walker Booth6, Cicely Whitehead7 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 20 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voicesA phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of severed body parts; a bigoted woman working at an ossuary, the bones she watches over her only remaining friends ... Read more

$19.11 USD

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Brought to you by Penguin.Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voicesA phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of severed body parts; a bigoted woman working at an ossuary, the bones she watches over her only remaining friends
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The Mermaid of Black Conch

A novel

by Monique Roffey ...

Narrated by Ben Onwukue, Vivienne Acheampong ...

Unabridged

7 hours 36 min

**This enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novel…single-handedly bringing magic realism up-to-date" (Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet)."Sentence by sensuous sentence, Roffey builds a verdant, complicated world that is a pleasure to live inside.... You might start to believe in the existence of ... Read more

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**This enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novel…single-handedly bringing magic realism up-to-date" (Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet)."Sentence by sensuous sentence, Roffey builds a verdant, complicated world that is a pleasure to live inside.... You might start to believe in the existence of
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The Crow Folk

The Witches of Woodville 1

by Mark Stay ...

Narrated by Candida Gubbins ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

'Beautiful and engaging and clever and what more could you ask for in a book?'Manda Scott, bestselling author of A Treachery of Spies'A story that is full of magic and delight that will thrill readers of any age'Rowan Coleman, author of The Girl at the Window‘A rural Ben Aaronovitch!’ C. K. McDonnell, author of The Stranger TimesAs Spitfir... ... Read more

$19.99 USD

'Beautiful and engaging and clever and what more could you ask for in a book?'Manda Scott, bestselling author of A Treachery of Spies'A story that is full of magic and delight that will thrill readers of any age'Rowan Coleman, author of The Girl at the Window‘A rural Ben Aaronovitch!’ C. K. McDonnell, author of The Stranger TimesAs Spitfir...
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The Library of the Unwritten

by A. J. Hackwith ...

Narrated by Lisa Flanagan ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Novel from Hell's Library
Unabridged

13 hours 57 min

In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors
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The Kingdoms

by Natasha Pulley ...

Narrated by Theo Solomon ...

Unabridged

15 hours 1 min

Bloomsbury presents The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley, read by Theo Solomon.For fans of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and David Mitchell, a genre bending, time twisting alternative history that asks whether it’s worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you’ve ever loved.Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the ... Read more

$30.00 USD

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Bloomsbury presents The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley, read by Theo Solomon.For fans of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and David Mitchell, a genre bending, time twisting alternative history that asks whether it’s worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you’ve ever loved.Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the
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