Bøker av Tina Jackson

Madge didn't mean to kill her best friend, but what happens when the only choices you get to make are bad ones? Following the interwoven fates of three women and set in the North of England at the turn of the 20th century, Spirit Burns is a spell-binding tale that leads the reader behind the curtains of vaudeville theatre and into gin palaces, sweat-shops, séance cabinets, and the secret world of suffragette arsonists. Meet Madge - factory hand, gang member, and good-time girl. Then there's Ellen, who wants to burn the existing order to the ground, and Stella, sold into show-life as a young girl and forced to trade off her looks and her talent to survive. We're drawn into places where women are overlooked and their bodies exploited. Places where bad things happen. Places where people want revenge. Places where people - people like Madge, who only wanted to have a laugh - are haunted by what they did, and what was done to them. Roll up! Roll up! Enter a world where the boundaries between the living and the dead are blurred, and the ones who get caught in between get to tell their stories.

Three young women; Chrysanthemum, Rose & Orage are thrown together performing as The Three Graces on the stage of Fankes' Theatre during the closing days of the Second World War.It's there they come under the spell of wardrobe mistresses Dolores and Janna - a chance encounter that will guide and change all of their fates forever.Set in the dying days of vaudeville theatre and laced with mysticism, fortune tellers, ghosts, and evocative descriptions of the closing days of the War - The Beloved Children will literally make you laugh out loud and perhaps even shed the odd tear.The Beloved Children is wise, funny, heart-breaking, joyous, poignant, and entirely entirely enthralling.Tina Jackson has conjured characters that you will fall unapologetically in love with and placed them in a world that you won't want to leave.This book genuinely weaves a spell around the reader and once you make friends with Janna, Dolores, and The Three Graces you'll never want to be without them in your life again.

Stories from the Chicken Foot House is a collection of stories where stranger things can happen than might seem possible - it's a collection of urban myths and fairytales for the kind of people who believe that the everyday can be extraordinary, and would rather wear Doctor Martens than be Disney princesses.