The Travelling Bag

6 best books like The Travelling Bag (Susan Hill): Wakenhyrst, The Silent Companions, The Corset, Thin Air: A Ghost Story, Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories, The Peppermint Tea Chronicles

Wakenhyrst
AuthorMichelle Paver
ISBN1788549562
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family – a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But all is not well at Wake's End. Edmund dominates his family...
The Silent Companions
AuthorLaura Purcell
When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting . . .

When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for...
The Corset
AuthorLaura Purcell
ISBN1408889617
The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?

Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful....
Thin Air: A Ghost Story
AuthorMichelle Paver
ISBN1409163342
The Himalayas, 1935

Kangchenjunga. Third highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all.

Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to tackle the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far - and the mountain is not their only foe.

As mountain sickness...
AuthorCecily Gayford
ISBN1781250944
From a beautiful antique that gives its owner a show he'd rather forget, to 'ghost detective' whose exorcism goes horribly wrong and a sinister masked ball which seems to have one too many guests, these ghost stories of supernatural terror are guaranteed to make you shiver, thrill and look under the...
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1846974836
To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting.

For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may...
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