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12 September 2024


From the moment I met Miss Hortense I was obsessed with her.  An icon in the making - I cannot wait for you to meet her next year when she is published.  A truly incredible debut crime novel.”

Nelle Andrew, Twitter


12 September 2024

Cover Reveal for Miss Hortense!


23 July 2024

“You can get really, really personal in audio in a way that is, again, quite different from other mediums. It makes the big very small....We’ve got world wars, we’ve got Windrush – these huge, huge things – and audio enables you to just bring it down to the person.”

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1 July 2024

Theatres join forces to tackle lack of women playwrights

“The Women in Theatre Lab supports 10 of the UK’s most talented emerging and mid-career female playwrights…..”

Read Jermyn Street report >

Read The Stage report >


14 June 2023

Baskerville has won a five-way auction to secure Mel Pennant's debut mystery novel The Reckoning of Miss Hortense.

Read The Bookseller article >


14 June 2023

Let’s go Miss Hortense!

Let’s go MISS HORTENSE! @MelPennant is brilliant and has written the mystery series we NEED! I can’t wait for y’all to have as much fun reading this as I did for @PantheonBooks

Lisa Lucas on Twitter >


25 October 2023

These stories are far bigger than just what you see in front of you.”

Read an interview with Mel >


9 November 2021

It was this sense of alienation that became the focus for Mel’s powerful new play, and how it contributed to a renewed struggle for racial equality and justice.”

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27 October 2021

“The project put me firmly back into the playwriting world…”

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