Evening with Kate Foster and A D Bergin

Join us for another exciting evening of Historical Fiction as we talk with Kate Foster and Andrew Bergin about their new novels "The Mourning Necklace" and "The Wicked of the Earth".

"The Mourning Necklace":

They said I would swing for the crime and I did . .. I wear the rope-mark like a mourning necklace. 1724.

In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Hanged for the murder of her newborn child, passers-by avert their eyes from her cheap coffin on its rickety cart.

But as her family pray her soul rests in peace, a figure appears at the door. It is Maggie. She is alive.

Bruised and dazed, Maggie has little time for her family’s questions. All that matters to her is answering this one: will they hang her twice?

"The Wicked of the Earth:

"October, 1650, traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastle’s recent witch trials.

Aloof, enigmatic Elizabeth Thompson draws him to investigate the ongoing killing of women who had worked to free the accused.

But when Elizabeth herself becomes hunted, the only chance of escape lies in Archer setting himself as bait.

Telling the true story of Britain's largest witch trial, and the extraordinary all-female campaign to free the accused, The Wicked of the Earth is perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, S G MacLean, S J Parris, or C J Sansom. "