“A highly readable and self-deprecating memoir”
✨Hearth of Darkness is in the Mail on Sunday’s BEST MEMOIRS of 2025 list today! So thrilled to see @dailymail really getting behind the book. 🍾 Thanks @ysendamaxtonegraham for the kind words.
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Now we’re cooking! Thrilled to see the local rag @londonreviewofbooks get into the Hearth of Darkness spirit with a proper deep-dive review this week 🧐🏚️👻
I think I, too, am of the “Live, Laugh, Love school of ghostbusting”
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What would you do if you found out that your house was once the home of an evil killer?
Introducing… Hearth of Darkness by @mattblakeuk , a haunting blend of true crime, psychological thriller and paranormal investigation.
📆 Out 30 October
📚 We have a very limited number of proof copies available so please let us know in the comments if you’d like to be considered for one!
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Pinch me! Hearth of Darkness has been shortlisted for TWO @truecrimeawards . 🖤📚
Thrilled and honoured to see my little true-crime haunted-house divorce memoir haunting a list of such brilliant books. What a rush! 👻🏚️🪰
As always, I have the best publisher in @elliottandthompson and I’m very lucky.
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Took Jasmine up to London’s most poltergeisty borough to see Hearth of Darkness’ window display at Waterstones Enfield this weekend.
What a thing to behold! Thanks eternally, @enfieldwaterstonesbooks … 🫶
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👻🚿🏚️I’m absolutely HERE for Haunted Magazine! It’s groaning with good stories, and isn’t at all self-serious. It’s not just for ghost believers but also people like me who gobble up supernatural storytelling and schema and the psychology of it all. Isn’t life just more interesting with a bit of mystery to it? 🌌
Anyway I’m in it this month. Cheers for having me @hauntedmagazine and for giving Hearth of Darkness such a good show.
Ok, back to Hugh Hefner and the ghosts of the Playboy mansion
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Another day, another way to tell the story of Hearth of Darkness, this time for readers of the Daily Mail.
If you haven’t bought your copy yet, please do - I’d love you to read the real thing. Plus, *nudge: it fits snugly inside a stocking (I’ve checked).
It’s perhaps not the most obvious Christmas reading material, but at its heart, it is a book about home (and love). And what’s more Christmassy than that? 🎄 🏠 🎄
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Thank you to @creativefstone for inviting me to the coast to talk about Hearth of Darkness. Honoured to be on a bill with so many legendary authors. Thanks especially to @alicehb for shaping the discussion so well. We got properly into the weeds of ‘place memory’, ‘emotional residue’, and the secrets houses keep. 🏚️🧸🚪
What a fab festival - I’m 💯 coming back next year, if not as an author then definitely as a punter.
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Can’t wait to speak about place memory, emotional residue, things that go bump in the night and all things Hearth of Darkness next Saturday (Nov 22) at @creativefstone book festival. I gather there are still a few tickets left so book now before they run out - I’d love you to come!
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Fantastic to see the wonderful reviews HEARTH OF DARKNESS by @mattblakeuk is getting!
"A gripping non-fiction book that reads like a thriller" - Woman's Weekly
"What could have been a straightforward ghost story turns into something more meditative and quizzical." Esquire - Best Non-Fiction Books of 2025
Out now from @elliottandthompson
Congratulations Matt!
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