Prize-winning author Kate Worsley lives in northeast Essex, where she runs online writing workshops and mentors up-and-coming writers. Her debut novel, She Rises (2013), set in 18th-century Harwich and Ipswich, won the HWA Debut Crown. Her latest novel Foxash (2023), a suspenseful rural noir based on the local land settlements of the1930s, is shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards. Foxash draws on the true stories of thousands of unemployed people who were relocated by a government-backed scheme to work on allocated smallholdings near Manningtree. Local readers might also think of Newbourne as they read it. This is no rural idyll though; the book has been described as powerful, visceral and unsettling, with ‘a gothic sensibility’. Read more about Foxash here