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11th April 2025
Mel Pennant's cosy-crime debut stages murder in a Birmingham suburb
“This is an opportunity for me to highlight the Windrush generation as a community”
Author Interviews by Lauren Brown
12 September 2024
“From the moment I met Miss Hortense I was obsessed with her. An icon in the making - I cannot wait for you to meet her next year when she is published. A truly incredible debut crime novel.”
12 September 2024
Cover Reveal for Miss Hortense!
23 July 2024
“You can get really, really personal in audio in a way that is, again, quite different from other mediums. It makes the big very small....We’ve got world wars, we’ve got Windrush – these huge, huge things – and audio enables you to just bring it down to the person.”
1 July 2024
Theatres join forces to tackle lack of women playwrights
“The Women in Theatre Lab supports 10 of the UK’s most talented emerging and mid-career female playwrights…..”
14 June 2023
Baskerville has won a five-way auction to secure Mel Pennant's debut mystery novel The Reckoning of Miss Hortense.
14 June 2023
Let’s go Miss Hortense!
Let’s go MISS HORTENSE! @MelPennant is brilliant and has written the mystery series we NEED! I can’t wait for y’all to have as much fun reading this as I did for @PantheonBooks.
25 October 2023
“These stories are far bigger than just what you see in front of you.”
9 November 2021
“It was this sense of alienation that became the focus for Mel’s powerful new play, and how it contributed to a renewed struggle for racial equality and justice.”
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