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Black Wood Women

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We know the truths men have forgotten… ‘Visceral, twisting, propulsive – Black Wood Women begs to be devoured’ Stacey Halls ‘Grim and glorious’ Daily Mail ‘Will leave you breathless’ Sunday Post * The last wolf in England hunts for prey. Exhausted, hungry and alone, she fears... Read More
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Black Wood Women

We know the truths men have forgotten…

‘Visceral, twisting, propulsive – Black Wood Women begs to be devoured’ Stacey Halls

A spellbinding, gripping, unputdownable historical novel, to read in 2025

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We know the truths men have forgotten…

‘Visceral, twisting, propulsive – Black Wood Women begs to be devoured’ Stacey Halls

‘Grim and glorious’ Daily Mail

‘Will leave you breathless’ Sunday Post

*

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008596118

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 October 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HQ

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Michael Stewart is a multi-award winning writer, born and brought up in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford. He has written several full length stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King's Cross Award for New Writing. His debut novel, King Crow, was published in January 2011. It won the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night. He works as a is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, where he is the director of the Huddersfield Literature Festival.

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