The Book of Lost Stories

Trisha Ashley

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Penguin (Transworld)
30 August 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical romance

From the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gloriously romantic and feel-good new novel

A lost journal. A long-buried secret. A story waiting to be told.

Cleo Finch has loved gothic literature all her life. She's spent years researching and writing her thesis on the works of one gothic novelist in particular, Orlando Browne, and is determined to prove that Browne was the pen name of a female author, Alys Weston.

But as her best friend Tris never fails to remind her, she still hasn't succeeded in finding concrete evidence that proves this to be true.

That is, until Cleo's Uncle Ambrose gifts her Alys' very own diary.

As Cleo begins deciphering Alys' daily entries, she finds herself utterly absorbed by Alys' vivid descriptions

- particularly of the rakish Lord Rayven - and the challenges Alys faced trying to keep Orlando's true identity a secret.

And so, newly inspired, Cleo sets aside her thesis to pen a gothic novel of her own . . .

By: Trisha Ashley
Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9781804997178
ISBN 10: 180499717X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Trisha Ashley's Sunday Times bestselling novels have sold over one million copies in the UK and have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy. Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels in the last fifty years. Her novel The Wedding Dress Repair Shop won the RNA award for Popular Romantic Fiction. Trisha lives in North Wales. For more information about her please visit www.Facebook.com/TrishaAshleyBooks or follow her on Twitter @trishaashley.