I’m very pleased today to welcome The Write Reads Blog Tour for Matthew Francis’ Nocturne with Gaslamps! This is Day 2 of the tour, so be sure to take a look at the feed for https://twitter.com/WriteReadsTours over the next few days and you’ll see a lot of bloggers who did find the time to read it have some interesting things about it.
Book Details:
Title: Nocturne with Gaslamps by Matthew Francis
Genre: Mystery; Historical Fiction,
Format: Paperback/Ebook
Length: 224 pages
Publication Date: September 4, 2024 (UK); April 1, 2025 (US)
About the Book:
A historical crime fiction novel set in Victorian London’s gaslit theatre scene, where ghosts lurk in the shadows and murder takes centre stage.
Gaslight. Ghosts. Murder.
Hastings Wimbury has always dreamt of playing Hamlet, but for now he works as a theatre gas-boy. Here, he tends to a gas chandelier so powerful it creates its own weather, and limelight machines that can throw a shadow onto a wall ten miles away.
When Hastings suddenly disappears, his fiancée Flora sets out to find him with the help of Cassie, her rival in love who is more preoccupied with the ghosts terrorising the streets of London. Soon total darkness is imposed upon the city, and they realise that something far more sinister is at hand…
Ladies aren’t supposed to solve mysteries, but this is a matter of life and death.
Book Links:
Amazon UK ~ Amazon US ~ Goodreads
About the Author:
Matthew Francis is Professor Emeritus in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge University. He writes novels, short stories, and poetry collections. He has won the TLS / Blackwell’s Prize for Poetry and the Southern Arts Literature Prize, and been shortlisted twice for the Forward Prize, twice for the Welsh Book of the Year Award and once for the Ted Hughes Award. In 2004, he was chosen as one of the Next Generation Poets. He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Matthew lives with this wife in Aberystwyth, Wales where he enjoys playing chess, cooking and playing the ukulele.
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My thanks to The Write Reads for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials they provided.
