The narrator of The Bromsgrove Business, beset by hapless marital and familial relationships, is writing a novel about academic life which is gradually taken over by spirit communicators revealing the solution to the murder of a local cricketer in Bromsgrove in the 1930s
This intriguing mixture of the fantastic with the poignantly plausible will test your powers of deduction and keep you chortling!
Steve Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, and author of many books of literary criticism and poetry, including a verse translation of Dantes Divine Comedy (Vintage Classics, 2019). The Bromsgrove Business is his first novel.
