News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

The Knowing

by Emma Hinds - £16.99  Bedford Square Publishers (2024)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9781915798138 | ISBN 10: 1915798132

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
 
‘Vivid, visceral and utterly immersive. Extraordinary’ LIZ HYDER author of The Gifts
 
‘You can smell the spit and sawdust rising from the pages of this atmospheric gothic novel.’ – RED Magazine
 
‘A Violent, disturbing gothic tale compellingly told.’ – The Guardian
 
‘If you love Sarah Waters and dark historical fiction, you will no doubt be hooked.’ – Diva magazine
 
In the slums of 19th-century New York.
 
A tattooed mystic fights for her life.
 
Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card.
 
Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense. The Knowing is a darkly spellbinding novel about a girl fighting for her survival in the decaying criminal underworlds.
 
Whilst working as a living canvas for an abusive tattoo artist, Flora meets Minnie, an enigmatic circus performer who offers her love and refuge in an opulent townhouse, home to the menacing Mr Chester Merton. Flora earns her keep reading tarot cards for his guests whilst struggling to harness her gift, the Knowing – an ability to summon the dead. Caught in a dark love triangle between Minnie and Chester, Flora begins to unravel the secrets inside their house.
 
The Knowing is a stunning debut inspired by real historical characters including Maud Wagner, one of the first known female tattoo artists, New York gang the Dead Rabbits, and characters from PT Barnum’s circus.

(Price & availability last checked: May 2024)

Order by email

×

The Knowing - by Emma Hinds

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

The Knowing

by Emma Hinds

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: Lesbian Fiction, Historical Fiction,
In categories: History & Biography,