{"product_id":"idle-grounds-paperback-launch-event-with-krystelle-bamford-wednesday-15th-april-2026","title":"Idle Grounds Paperback Launch Event with Krystelle Bamford - Wednesday 15th April 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin us in the bookshop to hear Krystelle Bamford in conversation with Aimée MacDonald to celebrate the paperback launch of \u003cem\u003eIdle Grounds.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6.30pm on Wednesday 15th April at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuy a copy of \u003cem\u003eIdle Grounds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and receive free entry to the event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for £6 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe will send an email to confirm your booking - please be sure to check your junk\/spam folder!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003ci\u003eIdle Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e On a bright summer day in 1989 New England, Abi, three years old, vanishes from her aunt’s secluded home. Upstairs, her young cousins are looking out of the window. Something is unfolding in the distance at the edge of the forest – something sinister that is watching them back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe adults don’t seem to notice that the youngest of the group has disappeared. Too busy bickering over politics and reminiscing about the family’s domineering late matriarch, Beezy, they leave the children with no choice but to get Abi back themselves. As the cousins embark on a quest through their grandmother’s sprawling estate, buried family secrets come to light and long-awaited plans are set in motion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill they lose themselves while trying to find her? \u003cem\u003eIdle Grounds\u003c\/em\u003e is a chilling, evocative and darkly comic debut about childhood, legacy, and the burdens and privileges we carry with us..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Krystelle Bamford\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eKrystelle Bamford’s work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ebath magg\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePANK\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUnder the Radar \u003c\/em\u003eand a number of anthologies including the \u003cem\u003eBest New British and Irish Poets 2019–2021\u003c\/em\u003e (Eyewear). She is a 2019 \u003cem\u003ePrimers \u003c\/em\u003e(Nine Arches Press) poet and was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Born in France and raised in the US, she now lives in Edinburgh with her partner and two kids. \u003cem\u003eIdle Grounds\u003c\/em\u003e, her first novel, was published by Hutchinson Heinemann (UK) and Scribner (US) in 2025. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Aimée MacDonald \u003c\/strong\u003eAimée MacDonald is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and poetry and a graduate of The Faber Academy. \u003cem\u003eThe Last Witch on the Knock\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eThe Last Witch on the Knock\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Knock hill is a carcass unintelligible as any dream. Wouldn't you rather be a witch than a victim? I didn't realise those were my only options.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn need of a fresh start, Thomasin leaves her toxic boyfriend, absent father and empty friendships to spend the summer in the Scottish Highlands with her eccentric Aunt Agnes and stern little cousin, Nina. But amidst the sprawling fields and ragged hills thrums a secret that has cursed the land for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e300 years earlier, Kate McNiven labours in The Big House by the Knock hill, wishing for a brighter future far away from the lecherous clutches of her master, the Laird. When she is exiled as a witch for refusing to succumb to his advances, Kate �inds the escape she so desperately seeks in Thomasin, whose vulnerable body becomes her unwilling host.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the thin place between centuries, through a pulsing wound that bleeds out history, the truth of the past is finally ready to be revealed . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hare Books","offers":[{"title":"Book \u0026 Ticket","offer_id":56748793659765,"sku":"9781804951965","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/KrystelleBamford.png?v=1771326426","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/idle-grounds-paperback-launch-event-with-krystelle-bamford-wednesday-15th-april-2026","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}