Out on 24 July 2025
Book cover for Castle Barebane

Castle Barebane

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24 July 2025
304 pages
9781035057597
Imprint: Pan

Reviews

A tightly-knit, exciting novel . . . an unusually well-told tale
Joan Aiken writes superbly, with a force, a colour and strength of imagination that one encounters all too rarely today. I loved every moment of it
Joan Aiken's Castle Barebane promises every kind of Gothic pleasure from grimy decadent London to a crumbling Scottish castle . . . the plot twists agilely enough to lead most readers up the garden path several times
Set in 19th century New York, London and Scotland, Castle Barebane is an engrossing novel of romance and terror . . . with an unforgettable, spirited heroine