The Daylight Gate – Winners!

Last month we've managed to get our paws on 10 copies of Jeanette Winterson's new horror novel, The Daylight Gate, exciting the critics with its dark  re-imagining of the Pendle witch hunts... GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this ... Read More...

The Old Ways– Winners!

The lucky winners of the latest Dabbler Book Club selection… Free books. What’s not to like? Especially when the book in question is Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways, a book that has deservedly been sitting in the bestseller lists for weeks now. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive and celebrated voice, the book ... Read More...

The History of Classical Music – 3. Renaissance

Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, The Dabbler is serialising Richard Fawkes' award-winning The History of Classical Music, read by Robert Powell... This third episode takes in the Renaissance period and the High Renaissance in England, and features music from Palestrina, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd [above].... This serialisation ... Read More...