‘Brings a lost age to thrilling life’
In October we publish Let These Things Be Written, the debut novel by Irish author Fiona Whyte. It dramatises the life of St Cuthbert, one of Anglo-Saxon England’s most significant religious figures.
Told through the eyes of a young novice monk banished to the monastery of Lindisfarne by his own parents, it’s a wonderfully evocative portrayal of the rigours and compensations of seventh-century monastic life, with a family mystery driving the story.
The manuscript was longlisted at an early stage of its development for the Exeter Novel Prize.
The Irish Examiner calls it ‘a perfect blend of research and storytelling’, while historical novelist Imogen Robertson says it’s ‘a compelling and vividly imagined novel of power and faith, and the demons and angels which follow us through the centuries’.
She adds: ‘Whyte’s novel recreates a lost age and brings its people, places, dangers and glories to thrilling life on the page.’
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