Our latest workshop, where we took a close look at Costa Book Award winners, went down a treat - as did splendid coffee and cakes at our latest coffee shop venue, @thePaintPotEllerton!
Most notable... 2015 Costa winner Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney, where we uncovered a classic Gothic opening crammed with foreshadowing, hints of death and a sense of mystery that draws the reader in (and all that in the first 3 paragraphs!)
Francis Hardinge's The Lie Tree was also hailed as a rightful winner; workshoppers found her text to be permeated with a wonderfully evocative sense of period and landscape.
More coming soon!
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