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Carole Johnstone grew up in Lanarkshire, Scotland. She has been writing as long as she can remember, and is an award-winning short story writer whose work has been reprinted and translated worldwide. She has been published by HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Titan Books, and has written Sherlock Holmes stories for Constable & Robinson.

MIRRORLAND, her debut novel, has sold in 13 territories, and has been optioned by Heyday TV and NBC Universal.

Her second novel, THE BLACKHOUSE, is a gothic thriller and unusual whodunnit set on an isolated Scottish island where nothing is as it seems, and shocking twists lie around every corner. Out Aug 4 2022 in the UK and Jan 3 2023 in the US and CAN.

Carole now writes full-time, and lives wi ...more

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	Mirrorland 3.61 avg rating — 11,886 ratings — published 2021 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blackhouse 3.44 avg rating — 3,634 ratings — published 2022 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearful Symmetries by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nathan Ballingrud (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian Rogers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Fran Wilde (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echoes by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author), Dale Bailey, Nathan Ballingrud (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skinner Box 3.38 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Turkey 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frenzy 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bright Day Is Done 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.’ ” “She said you were funny.”
― Carole Johnstone, Mirrorland

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“Ghosts are just unfinished business. Unspoken truths. Guilt hiding under rocks, inside rabbit holes. They don't need to follow you, because they are you.”
― Carole Johnstone, The Blackhouse

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“If a member of this tribe did something wrong, got caught doing something wrong, or even just thought they’d done something—anything, you know, from telling a lie to committing a murder—this tribe, this entire tribe, would take them into the center of their village, and they would form this circle around them, so tight they couldn’t escape, couldn’t hide. And then they would tell that person everything that was good about them. Every good thing they’d ever done. Every good thing they’d ever been. Over and over. And they wouldn’t stop. Not until that person heard them. Believed them.”
― Carole Johnstone, Mirrorland

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Fifty in Reverse

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The Other People

by C.J. Tudor

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