Aimee Blackledge

Aimee Blackledge explores the raw tension between human ambition and survival in unflinchingly authentic historical fiction. Her gritty narratives expose the moral complexities of those forging their own destinies. Experience seventeenth-century London, where extraordinary sacrifices are the cost of freedom and ambition.

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Download your free excerpt from Clouded in Clerkenwell.

Step into seventeenth-century London, where the only path to redemption runs through blood

Ambition Has a Price

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When a studio accident becomes their salvation, Henry and Antonis discover that the freedom to follow their dreams comes at an unthinkable price. What would you sacrifice to succeed?

Follow two desperate painters as they navigate an opportunistic death, a mad physician offering a dark bargain, and the cutthroat world of the royal court in seventeenth-century London—delivered weekly to your inbox.

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Ghost Bones

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Navigating memory, meaning and possession, this debut poetry collection resurrects personal and cultural ghosts. Poets Aimee Blackledge, Jackdaw Faust and Chris Jenkins explore the things that haunt the bones: gender constructs, heritage and liminal identity. 

‘Inventive, exploratory and necessary, Ghost Bones offers an insight into the very marrow of our being.’

—Joelle Taylor— T.S. Eliot Prize Winner 2021

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