The novel The Spyders of Burslem envisages the town in 1869 being alive with the tapping of wooden clogs on hard cobbles. Some may imagine them as sort of like Dutch clogs, but they would have been more like these, on show in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Since the gallery is not allowed to show anything that’s not from Staffordshire, they must be authentic ‘county clogs’. Note the thick carved wooden soles. I photographed them for this blog, yesterday…

Two “word clouds” for the North Staffordshire novel The Spyders of Burslem. Click the picture for the full-size version…

The Kindle edition of The Spyders of Burslem has been approved by Amazon, and is now “live” on the Kindle stores. The hand-coded and triple proof-read Kindle edition has a linked table-of-contents. It’s now available to sample or buy from Amazon USA and Amazon UK. If you prefer paperback, that’s also available.

I’m very pleased to say that my novel The Spyders of Burslem has been published for Halloween, as planned. Available to buy now as a paperback. Kindle users will have to wait just a little longer, because the Amazon approval process holds things up for a day or two.

Here are the chapter contents… with a free sample chapter. Kindle users will, of, course, be able to read the first 10% of the new book for free.

CONTENTS:

Chapter One: Arrival.
Chapter Two: A Providential Meeting.
Chapter Three: The Raising of the Zodiac.
Chapter Four: A Pint of the Finest.
Chapter Five: In a Darkling Aetherstorm. (Read for free!)
Chapter Six: Death and Time.
Chapter Seven: Discoveries.
Chapter Eight: The Scrying.
Chapter Nine: A Cunning Kiss.
Chapter Ten: What the Dark Brings.
Chapter Eleven: The Face and the Mind.
Chapter Twelve: The Shadows of the Blind.
Chapter Thirteen: The Workings of Men.
Chapter Fourteen: Lost and Dreaming.
Chapter Fifteen: A First Frost.
A historical note.