‘Schism and solitude, plague and politics…The life of St Cuthbert as witnessed by Holy Island’s lowliest scribe’– Let These Things Be Written Let These Things Be Written by Fiona Whyte published October 2024 with Eye Books and is described as a novel that ‘vividly conveys the hardships and compensations of monastic life in a brutal…
‘My mother was a cantankerous wagon. She was a pig-headed woman who never listened to a word of advice. She held everyone around her to impossibly high standards. She held herself to impossibly high standards. She was her own worst enemy, and mine. She disagreed with every word I said. She crossed me at every…
‘Some stories seem to tell themselves and other stories wish to remain untold. It is uncertain which this is.’– The Bureau [ About The Bureau ] Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the…