Superstition. Suspicion. Secrets.
When Nancy reopens her great-aunt Agnes’s award-winning bakery, she doesn’t understand why the locals avoid her shop. And why they call it ‘the witch house’.
After discovering an old recipe book in the shed, Nancy’s muffins sell out. But when weird things happen and old rumours resurface, who can Nancy trust?
And who is telling the truth?
Folklore-inspired Black Soil White Bread is a supernatural mystery about community, loyalty, and the occult.
Supernatural, Occult, Melbourne, Mystery, Dual Timeline, Folk Horror
About The Author
Originally from Tasmania, Madeleine D’Este now lives in inner-city Melbourne surrounded by books.
After studying law and seeing the world, now she writes speculative fiction and mysteries at night — female-led, of course.
In 2019, her supernatural mystery novel, The Flower and The Serpent, was nominated for the Australian Shadow Award’s Best Novel.
Her Australian gothic novella, Radcliffe (Deadset Press), received a 2023 Aurealis Award nomination for Best Horror Novella.
When not writing, Madeleine enjoys podcasts, knitting, forteana, indie films, kettle bells and likes her coffee as ‘black as midnight on a moonless night.’
