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Can anyone help me identify this book?

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Ouroboros · 11/03/2013 21:23

This is a long shot as I don't remember much about it. I think it was for older children, and the action was based around a cottage that the protagonists believed belonged to a witch. At the end of the book the thatch of the cottage caught fire, and someone found some small bottles in the thatch - one of them contained human blood. That's all I can remember, and some of it might not be right... Any suggestions gratefully recieved as it's annoying me!

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MrsPurple · 12/03/2013 00:19

Just tried a google search and is this any help? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_World

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Ouroboros · 12/03/2013 09:10

Thank you for looking but it's not one of those. It would have been written a bit earlier, and more like something by Penelope Lively I think.

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TunipTheVegedude · 12/03/2013 12:30

The Whispering Knights by Lively?

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TunipTheVegedude · 12/03/2013 12:31

or the Ghost of Thomas Kempe

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Ouroboros · 12/03/2013 13:51

I've just been looking at The Whispering Knights after prompting myself! I might have to buy a copy and see if that's it. Thanks for your help.

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TunipTheVegedude · 12/03/2013 14:07

I think it might be the Ghost of Thomas Kempe actually - they discover that a sorcerer used to live in their cottage and his ghost gets accidentally unbottled after a bottle found in the wall gets unstoppered. Then he goes around causing trouble and IIRC he might set fire to the house of an old lady in the village who he claims is a witch.

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Ouroboros · 12/03/2013 15:28

No, I re-read that one recently and it wasn't it. I do love a bit of retro children's literature.

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noscat · 13/03/2013 13:48

could it be anything by Nina Beachcroft? Well worth reading and similar to Penelope Lively.

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Ouroboros · 13/03/2013 22:03

Thank you, will definitely look at her books

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PomBearWithAnOFRS · 13/03/2013 23:12

It's ringing a vague bell - I think it might be one of the stories in "The Shadow Cage" anthology, but I'm not 100% sure. It might be that one of those stories has little bottles with "bad things" in them.

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monkeymamma · 27/03/2013 20:41

Ahhhhhh.... Was it called well met by witch light?

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