PRE ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE 
All preorders receive a Limited Edition 'Map of Menabilly' postcard, designed by Louisa Albani, whilst stocks last.
 
'It is one hundred years on from when Daphne du Maurier first set out to find Menabilly, first entered through the deserted lodge gates with her sister Angela in the autumn of 1926. Past the lodge, into the woods.
There is no sight of Menabilly from the sea or nearby land, no view from Polridmouth cove or what is now called Menabilly beach. It is hidden by dense woods, untouchable, unknowable. We only know of it through du Maurier’s memoirs, novels and correspondence.
We are no nearer to being able to physically experience it as du Maurier did back then. It is still enigmatic and mysterious, and perhaps that is its power.
Join myself and Maggie Humm as we follow in Daphne du Maurier’s footsteps – inspired by her own vividly told recollection in ‘The House of Secrets’, and her unforgettable fiction.' Louisa Albani
 
Louisa Amelia Albani is an artist, and the owner and founder of Night Bird Press. she has exhibited at Chawton House, Hampshire; St Pancras old Church, London; Keats-Shelley House, Rome; Keats House, Hampstead; Bankside Gallery, London; Bow Arts, London; Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall.
Contributor Maggie Humm is Vice-Chair, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, and author of books including: Maggie Humm – Snapshots; Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual, Edinburgh University Press; The Bloomsbury Photographs, Yale University Press, London; and Radical Woman; Gwen John & Rodin, Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.
 
Available 7 February 2026 Paper ISBN 978-1-7393268-5-2
A5 32pp. 19 colour illustrations. RRP. £13.50
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