Christopher Bowden: 5 books

“Very entertaining, cleverly constructed and expertly paced. I thoroughly enjoyed it.” Sir Derek JacobiHer face was thinner than it used to be, tauter somehow, almost gaunt, and the eyes seemed troubled. The hair, once long and flowing, was cut roughly short. Almost hacked, he thought....

“…a rare glimpse into our recent history, far too rarely plundered by modern novelists, and deftly done.” Andrew Marr“A novel as intriguing as the house at its heart. I loved it.” Julian FellowesWhen Jessica Tate finds an old country house guide in a box after her grandmother’s...

While staying in a Dorset cottage, Hugh Mullion finds a mysterious key down the side of an antique chair. No one can say how long the key has been there or what it opens. Hugh’s search for answers will unlock the secrets of the troubled life of a talented artist, destined to be hailed a neglected...

“Fear death by water. D.” The discovery of a cryptic note hidden inside a second-hand book sends thirty-something Hugh Mullion on an obsessive search for its previous owner. Hugh uncovers secrets that have lain hidden for sixty years and turn upside down his views of personal identity and the...

Clare Mallory has a Victorian mourning locket with the photograph of a girl and a curl of her hair. When Clare loses the locket in a fortune-teller’s tent her quest to find it draws her into a dark episode of the family’s past and the true circumstances of the girl’s untimely death at Danby...