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Aurora Metro
Aurora Metro Books -- an award-winning independent publisher of distinctive new fiction, intelligent non-fiction and world drama. For over three decades AM has been publishing original voices, championing diversity and equality, and promoting work in translation. With their associated charity, they also successfully campaigned for the first ever full size statue of Virginia Woolf, which was unveiled in 2022 in Richmond, where they are based.
BONE RITES
Historical, Thriller & Noir
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Aurora Metro
Natalie Bayley
German, Italian, Polish
Winner of The Virginia Prize for Fiction
"I collected the firstbone when I was nine. This fact was not mentioned in court... Such a tiny littlebone, more like a tooth. I only kept it to keep him safe."
Holloway prison, 1925. Dr Kathryn Darkling, branded The Westminster Vampire by the press, has two weeks until she is hanged for a series of brutal murders. Facing death, she knows that time is running out to complete her mission. Will she find a way to escape her fate?
Will she be able to perform the special bone rites that will save her brother?
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