Books

Author of the novel “The Workhouse Almanac – A Story of Shrewsbury”, Kate Mclanachan makes use of her vast experience and knowledge base, and combines it with thoroughly researched history. Her books, written alongside her full-time job as a mental health nurse, entwine fact and fiction with shock and intrigue. This book is her first non-fiction...

The Workhouse loomed impressively over the town, a majestic but formidable building that would become the prestigious Shrewsbury School.

An institution and Asylum for destitute paupers, lunatics and vagrants, its past secrets and atrocities locked away behind closed doors.

‘Voices’ whispered to her the gory details of her brother’s death,...