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Prudence, Derwa and Ewat are three women born of the North Yorkshire Moors. Their lives are tied in with and flowing by the River Esk, and the wild relentless moors. The 1800s are tough for the working and agricultural classes of England. Living in cramped cottages, sometimes hand to mouth survival and praying for a healthy constitution to see them through. And yet there is adventure and intrigue, woven into the old folklore and fairytales, an...

Haworth: 1816 Eleanor MacCaskill has relocated to Haworth, and lives up on the hills with her ailing mother and her frustrated daughter, Muriel. Out on the moors there is a dark angry man who stalks the family after a chance meeting in a snowstorm. Eleanor thinks it is from today's bitterness, Maud, growing confused in old age, seems to think there is a deeper connection. Whilst the older generations look to their past, Muriel dreams of a f...

Welcome to Commondale.Thieves and smugglers are about in the night seeking payment, but the master of the house is missing. Folklore and superstition still lingers in the moorland as the country travels through enlightenment. This is North Yorkshire of the late 1700s and Hobart Hurst's four children are growing up and starting their adult lives. From the moorland village full of traditions and farming, they move out across the county of Yorksh...

One sunny day an odd looking man, short in stature and over large in head, moves into a farm on the edge of a moorland village. Accompanied by his heavily pregnant young wife and disobedient maid he then scuttles off on business and leaves the women to their own devices. Rumours abound as to the history and dealings of the strange little merchant, Hobart Hurst. These are the mid seventeen hundreds in Yorkshire, in the north of England. The dra...

A buddy story born of creeping terror and rolled up newspapers. Out in West Yorkshire, Bronte Campbell's seemingly uneventful life is filled with small wonders and terrors. It is about to dramatically change thanks to a bunch of overly ripe bananas and a sudden summer heatwave. From this her greatest ally will come from her greatest fear. Sometimes the scary hairy can be the best thing to happen to you.

Isobella was a child created by intense and sudden passion, and abandoned just as quickly as the fire went out. Before anyone could know of her lack of a home, she was taken in by an ex patriot Breton woman, living as a recluse deep in the Welsh forests. And so began a most unusual upbringing and an even stranger life that would travel the earth in search of belonging. A modern gothic fairytale of nature, of isolation, of not knowing where you...

The Romanian knew...The discovery of a body, unexpected, always caused problems." Andrew Parvel, a thirty-something Scot, is found outside his Edinburgh flat with an almost empty whisky bottle in one hand and a collection of prescription drugs in his stomach. A single man who worked in finance and appeared to lead a very dull existence. A clear-cut suicide that ought to have been as disinteresting to the police as his life had been. There is s...

An abandoned collection of postcards taken from a train station and a three month stay in a Welsh tourist village might have been intended as light distraction during a break from the woes of the everyday. But aided with an over-reactive imagination and a collection of eccentric and mis-matched guests and gardening staff, Beryl Sinise finds her holiday in Wales anything but quiet and uneventful. There are tragedies and secrets to be uncovered,...

Half-Scot, half-Swede, Ylva Johansson has been running her solo tour company in Scotland for two years. Settled on the Isle of Skye, she is content with her life: guiding visitors for a living, spending her free time with mismatched friends, soaking up the island wilderness and learning about the local folklore and history. Her settled existence does not get to lie dormant, when two local characters hitch a lift and draw her into an old, forgo...

On a north-easterly tip of the Shetland mainland stands a lonely stone farmhouse. Windblown, and rain swept, myths of little folk and ghosts shrouded in mist. Here the Jameson family lives cut off from outsiders. Held together in self-inflicted isolation, driven by mistrust and disgust. Family secrets and a revenge decades old keep locals at a distance. A collective misery this old cannot continue indefinitely. The arrival of an outsider trigg...

Here comes Arabella Mangella. Do not make her angry. She's a banjo-playing, bellydancing credit controller too close to thirty for comfort. She spends her days shouting at debtors, swearing too much, silently seething and frustrated by idiotic work colleagues. She goes home to her landlord house mate: a meek, one-footed local boy. She is demonstrative and demanding, happy in her individuality, the queen of quirkiness. People, time and natural ...

How do you want to feel today? This contemporary collection of short stories ranges from real life to the supernatural, happiness to tragedy and melodrama, told through a range of eccentric and everyday characters, all trying to get somewhere in life. Find out what happened to the chocolate boyfriend, the woman who almost went mad, or why plagiarism is a bad idea. To know where to begin, you just need to ask yourself, how do you want to feel t...

Ever wanted to be your idol? Fresh from university and eager for the rest of his life, Edward Gable moves to York to start a position in a graduate training scheme. And whilst real life may not meet his expectations, the building he moves into can more than compensate for the lack of excitement. Everyone is friendly and helpful, but there are secrets no one wants to talk about - and if you find yourself living in a building with Sophia Loren, ...

Renata shrugged her shoulders. "I suddenly felt like it. I felt so tired of everything that I just had to... I just had to shake things up a bit." "Yes, but did you really have to shake them about in the centre of town?" Renata is disillusioned with her life and her office job. Elsa could use a warm, home-cooked meal. Nelly finds inspiration in an incidence of street crime. And whatever is going on, Lucinda will already have been there, done t...

In a small town in the Yorkshire Dales there is a select gathering known as the Society of Lost Causes. A gathering of eccentric and unknown people, people who feel that they or their work will have no consequence for the world. Until a murder without motive is committed in their small community, and three potential witnesses are drawn together permanently through the twist and turns of a crime scene and an organisation dedicated to rememberin...