In the near future, England is experiencing the hottest summer in living memory. An unnamed environmental scientist is tasked with evaluating the impact of a controversial new wind farm on the West Yorkshire moors. Camped out alone by the base of Turbine 34 – the most remote of the new turbines, built on an ancient peat bog – she spends her days gathering samples. But when she discovers signs of the devastation caused by the construction, she begins to see things – things that shouldn’t be there. She has dedicated her life to protecting the moor, but will it protect her?
Inspired by a real-life proposed wind farm in the North of England, Turbine 34 is for readers of Dark Matter and Wuthering Heights with a dash of folk horror.
Katherine Clements is the author of three historical novels: The Crimson Ribbon, published in 2014, The Silvered Heart in 2015, and The Coffin Path which became an Amazon bestseller and was nominated for the HWA Gold Crown Award and The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize in 2018. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, having held fellowships at both Sheffield and Manchester Universities, and a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently completing her forth novel which was birthed during a Fulbright funded year living in New Orleans. Katherine was editor of Historia, the online magazine of the Historical Writers’ Association and, for three years was commissioning editor at the Royal Literary Fund magazine Collected where she worked with many prize-winning and bestselling writers. She is based in West Yorkshire where she runs her own business as a writing coach and mentor. She’s a qualified coach, has led workshops for hundreds of writers, both in person and online, and was lead tutor at the Historical Novel Society Academy where she designed and lead the first online historical fiction masterclass programme. She recently launched The Inkwell, a newsletter and growing community for writers on Substack.