Jenni Fagan

We are delighted to be joined by Jenni Fagan to celebrate the brilliant Luckenbooth this September.

Your voucher can be used against either the hardback or paperback edition of this book. Select the £16.99 place to order a hardback copy or a £8.99 place for the paperback.

This is a bold, haunting and dazzlingly unique novel about the stories and secrets we leave behind, and the places that hold them long after we are gone.

The year is 1910 and the devil’s daughter has been sent to No. 10 Luckenbooth Close, an archetypal Edinburgh tenement, by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancee. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents that will last for the rest of the century.

Over nine decades, No. 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building’s troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors and an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building’s longest kept secret to be heard…