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Author · Storyteller
Mabel Cole
@mabelcole
Writer of historical fiction with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Mabel Cole writes across historical fiction and drama, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Mabel Cole
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Currently creating
Later first draft
The Last Copy at Donegall Street
In Belfast in 1941, a junior compositor at a city newspaper finds a bundle of letters hidden in the print room after an air raid. When the paper’s owners want the story buried, she has to decide whether loyalty to the office matters more than the people the war has already broken.
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