BOOK LAUNCH: Black Wood Women by Michael Stewart

Join local author Michael Stewart in conversation with writer and bookseller Mark Wright to discuss Michael's new novel, Black Wood Women. There will be a reading, followed by a discussion, audience Q&A and book signing.

Michael Stewart is the author of nine acclaimed books, including King Crow (winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award); Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff; 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 birthplace and the parsonage, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson and Jackie Kay. Black Wood Women (HarperCollins) is his latest novel.

About the book:

The last wolf in England hunts for prey. Exhausted, hungry and alone, she fears for the litter of pups she carries, and the men who seek to wipe her out. Yorkshire, 1649. Since they fled Ireland, Caragh and her family have hidden their true identities to enable them to start a new life in England. But when Caragh finds her parents brutally murdered by a Protestant determined to rid the area of Catholics, she must flee again. Travelling east, she comes to a forest, where she meets a coven of women who wear their hair loose and refuse to follow men’s rules. Having found acceptance at last, Caragh is unaware that a different kind of persecution stalks the black wood women, and their days in the forest are numbered.

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