'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and r...
A village haunted by stories. Two women bound by a secret.A haunting gothic tale of ancient darkness and a love that defies convention, from Sunday Times #1 bestseller Bridget Collins.'At once a moving study of women's lives after the First World War, an exquisite love story and a terrifying folk horror. So beautifully written that I could hardly bear to stop reading, this is Bridget Collins at her beguiling best' EMILIA HART'Bridget Collins' writing haunts my dreams' ERIN KE...
When their thirteen-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the Van Laar family.They're cold, rich people. They own the camp. And it's happened to them before.Fourteen years ago their little boy, Bear, vanished without a trace.Two children lost to the same wilderness.Is it a tragedy… or a crime?
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy?an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution Leningrad by her father, a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora.She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up a...
Theirs was a love that defied the gods…Beautiful, headstrong Psyche has captured the eye of every suitor – but also the jealous gaze of Aphrodite. When she is tied to a rock to be sacrificed to a ‘monstrous husband’, no monster arrives: instead, she is spirited away by Aphrodite’s daughter Eros.Eros, goddess of desire, can change gender at will. In her hidden palace, she visits Psyche under a cloak of darkness, unable to reveal her face. As they discover new pleasures togethe...
‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared … self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begona Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY‘Fascinating … I suspect there are many, many other mothers who are going to inhale TheAbandoners’OBSERVERWhen it comes to children: a man leaves, a woman ...
