Forthcoming in August 2025

News:

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited, the new novel by Ruth Skilbeck, is published 2 August 2025; the ebook-pdf is available for sale from Borderstream Books on this website in the ‘Books’ shop page.

The paperback is out in August and will be in bookshops soon.

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck

When Roxanne and her family move into The Old Manse, a former 19th century manse in the countryside in Northern Ireland, a new chapter of exciting adventure and peril opens for the almost-thirteen year old budding writer. The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited will take readers on a journey with Roxy, her family, her new friend Margy, and girls from earlier times; over three years from the conflict of the early 1970s Troubles; riding her horse in the country; on road trips across Europe and in Ireland; to past eras. What is most scary is not the ghost story Roxy and her family are told about the old manse but the mysterious impacts of the traumas of war and conflict, bereavement and accidents revealed by former inhabitants of the site. A historical coming-of-age novel with environmental, psychological, and supernatural themes.

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck is out 2 August 2025.

ISBN: 9780645194142 Ebook 218 pages. For sale in Borderstream Books’ ‘Book’ shop

Publisher: Borderstream Books

Place of publication: Australia

Australian Fugue Series, Book 3 is a standalone novel as are the others in Ruth’s series.