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      • Widdershins
        Fiction
        July 2017

        Widdershins

        by Helen Steadman

        'Did all women have something of the witch about them?'   Based on the little-known 1650 witch trials in Newcastle, England, which resulted in the biggest mass execution of witches in one day on English soil.   Unusually for ‘witcherature’, this book explores the development and make-up of the witchfinder as well as the witches.   Jane Chandler is an apprentice healer. From childhood, she and her mother have used herbs to cure the sick. But Jane will soon learn that her sheltered life in a small village is not safe from the troubles of the wider world.   From his father's beatings to his uncle's raging sermons, John Sharpe is beset by bad fortune. Fighting through personal tragedy, he finds his purpose: to become a witch-finder and save innocents from the scourge of witchcraft.   Inspired by true events, Widdershins tells the story of the women who were persecuted and the men who condemned them.

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      • Sunwise
        Fiction
        April 2019

        Sunwise

        by Helen Steadman

        ‘There is a madness come upon England of late.’   Sunwise is the sequel to Widdershins, and it picks up where the first book left off in 1650, following the execution of Jane’s mother, alongside 16 other alleged witches.   When Jane’s lover, Tom, returns from the navy to find her unhappily married to his betrayer, Jane is caught in an impossible situation. Still reeling from the loss of her mother at the hands of the witch-finder John Sharpe, Jane has no choice but to continue her dangerous work as a healer while keeping her young daughter safe.   But, as Tom searches for a way for him and Jane to be together, the witch-finder is still at large. Filled with vengeance, John will stop at nothing in his quest to rid England of the scourge of witchcraft.   Inspired by the true events of the Newcastle witch trials, Sunwise tells the story of one woman's struggle for survival in a hostile and superstitious world.

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      • Assembly of the Dead
        Historical fiction

        Assembly of the Dead

        by Saeida Rouass

        Morocco, 1906. The country is caught between growing European influence and domestic instability. As young women disappear from the alleyways of Marrakesh, Farook Al-Alami, a detective from Tangier, is summoned to solve the case of the apparent abductions. Investigating crimes in a country without a police force, Farook enters Marrakesh on the orders of the Sultan. But, in a city under siege from famine and death, he must rely on his own intuition and skill to uncover the mystery of the women s fate. Will anything halt the spate of disappearances until then? And can a single, criminal pair of hands lie behind events? As the story of the missing women becomes increasingly treacherous, the tension escalates around Jemma el-Fna, where the dead assemble.

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      • The Running Wolf
        Fiction
        November 2020

        The Running Wolf

        by Helen Steadman

        Inspired by the real-life case of Hermann Mohll: swordmaker, smuggler and traitor…   When a German smuggler is imprisoned in Morpeth Gaol in the winter of 1703, why does Queen Anne's powerful right-hand man, The Earl of Nottingham, take such a keen interest?   At the end of the turbulent 17th century, the ties that bind men are fraying, turning neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend and brother against brother.   Beneath a seething layer of religious intolerance, community suspicion and political intrigue, The Running Wolf takes us deep into the heart of rebel country in the run-up to the 1715 Jacobite uprising.   Hermann Mohll is a master sword maker from Solingen in Germany who risks his life by breaking his guild oaths and settling in England. While trying to save his family and neighbours from poverty, he is caught smuggling swords and finds himself in Morpeth Gaol facing charges of High Treason.   Determined to hold his tongue and his nerve, Mohll finds himself at the mercy of the corrupt keeper, Robert Tipstaff.   The keeper fancies he can persuade the truth out of Mohll and make him face the ultimate justice: hanging, drawing and quartering. But in this tangled web of secrets and lies, just who is telling the truth?

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