Devon author Kate Vane’s new novel, Still You Sleep, focuses on hate crime on social media. A young woman with a learning disability is found dead, and her death becomes the subject of social media trolling.
Kate said, “The investigation focuses on whether the trolls are connected directly to her murder, or whether they are just exploiting her death for their own reasons. Like many people, I’ve become increasingly dismayed by social media trolling and wanted to explore the different reasons why people do it, from resentment, to conviction, to just wanting to join in a pile-on.”...
Devon writer Kate Vane's crime novel Recognition has been published on Amazon Kindle.
Kate, who works in Exeter, has previously written TV drama and short fiction. This is her first novel.
Recognition features a trauma counsellor, Nat Keane, who is asked to work with the family of a murder victim. However, she has history with them – she was a police officer on the original investigation who became over-involved with the family.
Nat soon learns that the guilt of the convicted man is being called into question. As she is drawn into the family’s secrets, she is...
Exeter Bach Society present Johann Sebastian Bach: Obedient Servant or Enlightened Master?
A talk by Margaret Steinitz, Artistic Director of the London Bach Society
The performance-driven revival of Bach's large corpus of vocal and instrumental music over the last century has opened our eyes and ears as performers and listeners; but how can our knowledge, appreciation and understanding of it be used to open the door to Bach for future generations? Margaret Steinitz will examine Bach's own working environment and contrast it...
