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Waterstones in Hull are extremely supportive of Hull & East Riding writers, and carry a stock of many of the books mentioned on this site.
Karen Wolfe
Having contributed widely to specialist magazines, Karen Wolfe turned her hand to fiction,
winning, rather appropriately, the BBC Radio 4 ‘Square Dog’ competition twice in succession, contributing to the
American ‘Wolfsongs’ anthology, and also winning the ‘Aesthetica’ Magazine literary prize in 2008.
Karen has written six Granny Beamish books, 'Seers'
being released in December 2008 and its sequel being published in the Autumn of 2009. Four further Granny Beamish books are
already written and queuing for publication.
Additionally, she has written a how-to-speak-dog
guide, a Northern comic horror melodrama called 'Blackrigg', and is now hard at work on a series of comic crime adventures
(with dogs) 'Dogsbody' and 'Dogwatch'.
She has two children and five grandchildren, lives with her long-suffering husband and two beloved
dogs in small-town East Yorkshire, and likes crime-novels and red wine. She plans to have her ashes scattered in
Marks & Spencer, where she’s spent many a happy hour.
'Seers'
In 'Seers', Karen Wolfe has created a wonderful world of extraordinary characters, all engaged in that eternal struggle between good and evil.
Where else could you find such as engaging and quirky people such as Granny Beamish, Tukesley Meredith, Brassica Bray and the rest - all finely drawn (where does she get those names?).
Yet the dark tones of the story are lightened by some magical touches of humour throughout, and the narrative grips from beginning to end.
Of course, good triumphs in the final chapter, as it always will, but not until after some hair-raising, and very scary, struggles.
'Seers' Moon'
Kenneth is a man tormented by the moon, making life on the run no fun at all for him and his sister Betty. His alter-ego Warg, the were-wimp, is ruthlessly pursued by cats, geese, sheep and the District Council’s Wolf Patrol....as well as by something much, much worse… Gwilym Jenkins merciless bounty-hunter badly wants a werewolf-pelt to add to his Dead Supernaturals collection, and he won’t give up til he gets one.
So it’s down to Granny, aided by one motheaten dog, nine stroppy sheep, and Perilla Pearce, animal saviour, to save Warg/Kenneth from himself…and from the moon.
To come in time (Granny Beamish series):
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