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Playing with the Past: Alex Hay & Freya Berry (Autumn Festival 2023)
Alex Hay and Freya Berry’s dazzling new novels revel in dark secrets, audacious characters and vivid, atmospheric settings. From a daring Park Lane heist to a dangerous treasure hunt in a ruined Scottish castle, discover their worlds of historical fiction, and what drew their imaginations into the past.
Alex Hay - The Housekeepers
When Mrs King, housekeeper to the most illustrious home in Mayfair, is suddenly dismissed after years of loyal service, she knows just who to recruit to help her take revenge. A black-market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate for a magnificent part. A seamstress dreaming of a better life. And Mrs King’s predecessor, who has been keeping the dark secrets of Park Lane far too long.
Mrs King has an audacious plan in mind, one that will reunite her women in the depths of the house on the night of a magnificent ball - and play out right under the noses of her former employers...
Freya Berry - The Birdcage Library
'Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me...'
It’s 1932 and adventuress and plant-hunter Emily Blackwood accepts a commission from Heinrich Vogel, a former dealer of exotic animals in Manhattan, living now with his macabre collection in a remote Scottish castle.
Emily is tasked to find a long-lost treasure which Heinrich believes has been hidden within the castle walls. But instead she discovers the pages of a diary, written by Hester Vogel, who died after falling from the Brooklyn Bridge. Hester’s diary leads Emily to an old book and into a treasure hunt of another kind, one that will take her down a dangerous path for clues, and force her to confront her own darkest secret...
Discover a mystery within a mystery in The Birdcage Library, a novel that will hold you in its spell until the final page.
Alex Hay - The Housekeepers
When Mrs King, housekeeper to the most illustrious home in Mayfair, is suddenly dismissed after years of loyal service, she knows just who to recruit to help her take revenge. A black-market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate for a magnificent part. A seamstress dreaming of a better life. And Mrs King’s predecessor, who has been keeping the dark secrets of Park Lane far too long.
Mrs King has an audacious plan in mind, one that will reunite her women in the depths of the house on the night of a magnificent ball - and play out right under the noses of her former employers...
Freya Berry - The Birdcage Library
'Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me...'
It’s 1932 and adventuress and plant-hunter Emily Blackwood accepts a commission from Heinrich Vogel, a former dealer of exotic animals in Manhattan, living now with his macabre collection in a remote Scottish castle.
Emily is tasked to find a long-lost treasure which Heinrich believes has been hidden within the castle walls. But instead she discovers the pages of a diary, written by Hester Vogel, who died after falling from the Brooklyn Bridge. Hester’s diary leads Emily to an old book and into a treasure hunt of another kind, one that will take her down a dangerous path for clues, and force her to confront her own darkest secret...
Discover a mystery within a mystery in The Birdcage Library, a novel that will hold you in its spell until the final page.
Friday 13 Oct 2023
Waterstones, Unit 72 Midsummer Place, Central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK9 3GA
6.30 - 7.30pm, £8
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