Published in August 2025

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited, the new novel by Ruth Skilbeck, is published 28 August 2025 in paperback; and the ebook-pdf (published August 2025) is available for sale from Borderstream Books on this website in the ‘Books’ shop pages.

The paperback was released on 28 August 2025 and is now in bookshops.

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck

"With an intriguing premise, this novel brings Irish history vividly to life, told with an arresting voice through the eyes of a 15-year-old girl."- ERINA REDDAN

When Roxanne and her family move into The Old Manse, a former 19th century manse in the countryside in Northern Ireland, a new chapter of exciting adventure and peril opens for the almost-thirteen year old budding writer. The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck will take readers on a journey with Roxy, her family, her new friend Margy, and girls from earlier times; over three years from the conflict of the early 1970s Troubles, at home and on road trips including a near fatal van crash in a Swedish blizzard. (Back cover description)

Each of the novels in Ruth Skilbeck's Australian Fugue series can be read as a standalone novel.

Read as a series, the novels proceed through recursion, going back in time, with The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited also moving forward decades in its ending.

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited by Ruth Skilbeck is out in paperback 28 August 2025.

ISBN: 9780645194135 Paperback. 218 pages. For sale in Borderstream Books online bookshop, and in online and bricks and mortar bookshops.

ISBN: 9780645194142 Ebook-pdf. 218 pages. For sale only in Borderstream Books online bookshop (on the ‘Anthology. Journal. Books’ page).

Publisher: Borderstream Books

Place of publication: Whittington, Victoria, Australia

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited: An Australian Fugue Novel (Book 3) is a standalone novel as are the others in Ruth Skilbeck’s series.

Borderstream Books

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited, the new novel by Ruth Skilbeck, is published 28 August 2025 in paperback; and the ebook-pdf (published August 2025) is available for sale from Borderstream Books on this website in the ‘Books’ shop pages.

Arts Features International journal-anthology editions are published in paperback and hardback, and in ebook-pdf editions, exclusively sold by Borderstream Books, which can be bought and downloaded from this website.

The Girls and the Ghosts of The Old Manse Revisited: An Australian Fugue Novel by Ruth Skilbeck was published on 28 August 2025 in Australia in paperback. It was also released in ebook-pdf in August 2025 in Australia.