NOVELIST
AIMEE BLACKLEDGE
Darkly comedic historical fiction from seventeenth-century London
DEBUT NOVEL
Clouded in Clerkenwell
London, 1641. Two ambitious painters conceal their master's death and seize the practice, as a country slides toward civil war. A darkly comedic novel about ambition, deception, and the small lies that build a life.
ABOUT AIMEE
I write darkly comedic historical fiction set in Early Modern Europe. As an art historian (DPhil, Oxford), I came to the period through doctoral research on painters and their material world, and stayed for the stories the archive doesn't tell.
My poetry pamphlet Ghost Bones was described by T.S. Eliot Prize winner Joelle Taylor as 'inventive, exploratory and necessary'.
THE PERIOD EYE
A newsletter on art, the Early Modern world, and the writing of historical fiction
Fortnightly essays on paintings, objects, and the texture of seventeenth-century life. Subscribers receive a prequel to Clouded in Clerkenwell.
Header image: Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario, 1628. Oil on panel, 70.5 cm x 80.5 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.