The tide took the parish in one night, and gave back only the bell
Opening line of Tidewrack, by Esme Cardew
The catalogue
Seven books, four writers. Every one available as an unlocked EPUB you can read anywhere.
Stonecrop
₹249.00
The Nine Fires
₹199.00
Bogwater
₹49.00
The Understorey
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Lampblack
₹129.00
The Hollow Way
₹199.00
Sanderling
₹199.00
Marram
₹49.00
A Winter Commission
₹129.00
The Cartographer’s Sister
₹129.00
A free novella, if you want one
The Wickmoor Tapes is a 90-page Esme Cardew novella set nine years before Tidewrack. Two folklorists arrive to record the harvest songs. The recordings survive. The folklorists do not.
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