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Books by C.J. Cooke
C.J. Cooke is the author of sixteen books which have been published in twenty-three languages and won numerous awards, including an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Tyrone Guthrie Prize, and a K Blundell Award. She has won a Northern Writers’ Award three times. Now Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, CJ convenes the prestigious MLitt Creative Writing and researches ways that creative writing can help with trauma and mental health.
“The Ghost Woods is a story set in 1956 and 1964, the mid-20th century, in Lichen Hall, a mother and baby home in a forest in Scotland. It follows the relationship between two young women who are staying at the home to have their babies conceived out of wedlock, as many women did. It’s about what they discover when they’re at the home, the secrets of Lichen Hall, and the relationships that they develop between themselves and their children.” Read more...
Interviews with C.J. Cooke
The Best Gothic Fantasy Novels, recommended by C.J. Cooke
Gothic fantasy helps us explore what is hidden, disturbing and liminal in our own lives, explains author C.J. Cooke. She introduces her top five gloriously Gothic novels, featuring haunted houses, attic prisons, carrion crows, and ghost children – and an underlying exploration of personal and collective traumas.
Interviews where books by C.J. Cooke were recommended
The Best Gothic Fantasy Novels, recommended by C.J. Cooke
Gothic fantasy helps us explore what is hidden, disturbing and liminal in our own lives, explains author C.J. Cooke. She introduces her top five gloriously Gothic novels, featuring haunted houses, attic prisons, carrion crows, and ghost children – and an underlying exploration of personal and collective traumas.
