The Culvert (Paperback)

Stephen F. Clegg

ISBN 10: 1035881551 / ISBN 13: 9781035881550

Published by Austin Macauley Publishers, London, 2025

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Paperback. In 2014, during a birthday celebration in a country pub, members of historic researcher Naomi Wilkes family are intrigued to see an old and faded, countryside photograph attached to a chimney breast entitled The Man In The Photo . Despite careful studying by everyone else, the only person who can see anyone is Naomi s six-year-old daughter Francesca, who says that she can see the man s eyes, that she doesn t like him, and that he is trying to escape from a hole. In 1854, a work detail of selected prisoners from a nearby gaol arrive at Wordale Nabb in Lancashire with the intention of extending an abandoned mine to help improve the water supply to the nearby Whitewall Estate. But nobody is aware that their endeavours are going to take them through land that has for the previous three hundred years been believed to be the domain of underground demons. And the outcome for both parties, separated by one-hundred-and-sixty years, is just as gripping and terrifying. In 2014, during a birthday celebration in a country pub, members of historic researcher Naomi Wilkes family are intrigued to see an old and faded, countryside photograph attached to a chimney breast entitled The Man In The Photo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Culvert (Paperback)
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers, London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035881551
• ISBN 13: 9781035881550
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In 2014, during a birthday celebration in a country pub, members of historic researcher Naomi Wilkes' family are intrigued to see an old and faded, countryside photograph attached to a chimney breast entitled 'The Man In The Photo'. Despite careful studying by everyone else, the only person who can see anyone is Naomi's six-year-old daughter Francesca, who says that she can see the man's eyes, that she doesn't like him, and that he is trying to escape from a hole.
In 1854, a work detail of selected prisoners from a nearby gaol arrive at Wordale Nabb in Lancashire with the intention of extending an abandoned mine to help improve the water supply to the nearby Whitewall Estate. But nobody is aware that their endeavours are going to take them through land that has for the previous three hundred years been believed to be the domain of underground demons.
And the outcome for both parties, separated by one-hundred-and-sixty years, is just as gripping and terrifying.

About the Author

Stephen Clegg was born in Stockport 1947. He is retired but actively volunteering, and lives happily on the south coast of England with his wife. Since the publication of Maria s Papers, his first in this series of novels, he has been nominated for three prestigious book prizes and was a finalist in The People s Book Prize for his novel The Matthew Chance Legacy. This novel The Culvert, is the last in the series.