Black Wood Women by Michael Stewart

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Black Wood Women by Michael Stewart

We know the truths men have forgotten Visceral, twisting, propulsive Black Wood Women begs to be devoured Stacey Halls

'Grim and glorious' Daily Mail

'A vivid, inventive narrative' Sunday Times

'A really beautiful blend of history and fantasy – delivered in gorgeously lyrical language' Best

‘A devilishly impassioned danse macabre of a novel that grips the reader by the hand and refuses to let go from the first to the last page’ Essie Fox

'Complex and heartbreaking, a liminal thing that burns with the heat haze of history and fiction meeting… Stewart’s Black Wood Women is an utterly compelling read' AG. Slatter

'Black Wood Women has the lived-in realism of a great and well-researched historical fiction, and distinguishes itself with its playful, inventive, and occasionally gut-wrenching storytelling. Michael Stewart has written something altogether his own with this one.' Nick Cutter

Praise for the author

‘An astonishing novel’ The Independent

'Easily outdoes the original Heathcliff’ The Times Literary Supplement

'Beautifully written and thrilling’Yorkshire Post

'Visceral and unswerving’ Historia Magazine

Michael Stewart is the author of three other novels: King Crow (winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award), Café Assassin and Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff; two short story collections: Mr Jolly and Four Letter Words; two poetry collections: Couples and The Dogs; and a hybrid memoir: Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës’ Footsteps.

He is also the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the Brontë sisters’ birthplace and the parsonage where they lived, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson and Jackie Kay.

He has written for TV, radio and stage, and is the winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award and the BBC Short Range film competition. His BBC Radio 4 drama Excluded was shortlisted for the Imison Award. He was head of Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield for eighteen years.

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ISBN 13 9780008596118
ISBN 10 0008596115
Title Black Wood Women
Author Michael Stewart
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2025-10-23
Number of pages 416
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.