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*** THE THRILLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ***<BR>*** THE BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ***<BR>***ONE OF THE TIMES BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF 2021***<BR>*** THE TIMES NO.4 BESTSELLER ***<BR>*** THE #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER ***<BR><BR>THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH<BR>OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH<BR><BR>'I haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl' - STEPHEN KING<BR> 'One of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year' - DAILY MAIL<BR> 'A dark, audacious highwire act of a novel' - GUARDIAN<BR>________________________________________<BR><BR>This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.<BR><BR>All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies. An unspeakable secret binds the family together, and when a new neighbour moves in next door, the truth may destroy them all. Because there's something buried in the dark forest at the end of Needless Street. But it's not what you think...<BR><BR>From the multiple award-winning author of Little Eve and Rawblood, this extraordinary tale will thrill and move readers. A work of incredible imagination and heartbreaking beauty.<BR><BR>*** FILM RIGHTS OPTIONED BY IMAGINARIUM PRODUCTIONS ***<BR>*** RIGHTS SOLD IN TWENTY TERRITORIES ***<BR>________________________________________<BR><BR>'Catriona Ward is the new face of literary dark fiction' - SARAH PINBOROUGH<BR><BR>'Books like this don't come around too often' - JOANNE HARRIS<BR><BR>'Believe the hype... a masterclass' - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE<BR><BR>'A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense. I was completely enthralled' - JOE HILL<BR><BR>'A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting' - ALEX NORTH<BR>

Untertitel
The Bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club Pick

H | B | T | Gramm
197 mm | 131 mm | 27 mm | 0.312 kg

Erscheinungsjahr
2021

FSK
0

Ausgabe
Taschenbuch

Verlag
Profile Books

ISBN-10
1788166183

ISBN-13
9781788166188

Autor
Ward, Catriona

Sprache
Englisch

Seitenanzahl
376

Themen
Kriminalromane und Mystery, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre, Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches

Keywords
Englische Belletristik / Kriminalroman, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Kriminalroman, Thriller, Horror / Romane, Erzählungen, Heftromane, TB/Belletristik/Kriminalromane, FICTION / Crime, Kriminalromane und Mystery, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre, Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches

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Ward, Catriona

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Ward, Catriona

Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in the US, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She read English at the University of Oxford and spent several years working as an actor in New York. When she returned to the UK she worked on her first novel while writing for a human rights foundation, then took an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Rawblood, was published in 2015 and won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel in 2016. She won again in 2018 for Little Eve, which also won the prestigious Shirley Jackson Award. In 2021 she published her bestselling novel The Last House on Needless Street, which was both a Richard and Judy Book Club and BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick. It was awarded the August Derleth Award in 2022, making Ward the only woman to prize three times. She was shortlisted again for her fourth novel, Sundial, in 2023. Her fifth novel, Looking Glass Sound, was shortlisted the Fingerprint Genre-Busting Book of the Year in 2024. Her next novel, Nowhere Burning, will be published by Viper in 2025.

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The Last House on Needless Street
"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." -Stephen King<BR><BR>Named one of the Best Horror Books of All Time (Esquire and Cosmopolitan) ¿ Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel ¿ An Indie Next Pick ¿ A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick ¿ A Library Journal Editors' Pick<BR><BR>Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.<BR><BR>In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.<BR><BR>A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time.<BR>A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.<BR>And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.<BR><BR>An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.<BR><BR>"The new face of literary dark fiction." -Sarah Pinborough

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Nowhere Burning
* FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET *<BR><BR>'One of our finest literary horror writers' - SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'A dark, grimly compelling and very twisty tale' - GUARDIAN<BR>'A beguiling, haunting modern fairy tale' - DAILY EXPRESS<BR><BR>The Nowhere Children are expecting you...<BR><BR>High in the mountains sits Nowhere, a verdant valley surrounded by walls of rock. People have lived at Nowhere for centuries, though never for long, and rarely happily. Its last owner was its most famous: movie star Leaf Winham, who built Nowhere House as a refuge to hide from his fame... and to hide his crimes. Only when Nowhere House went up in flames were the graves discovered, the last resting places of lost young men who would never go home.<BR><BR>Years later, Nowhere valley has become a sanctuary for runaway children, a place where adults cannot enter. Drawn by this promise, fourteen-year-old Riley pulls her brother Oliver from his bed in the middle of the night, hoping to find a new family. But the Nowhere Children are fierce in defending their valley and their secrets. For something dark lives in the ruins of Nowhere House, something that asks a terrible price for sanctuary...<BR><BR>'Nowhere Burning is nothing short of spellbinding' - OLIVIE BLAKE<BR><BR>'So sharp and beautiful it draws blood and leaves scars' - GRADY HENDRIX<BR><BR>'Gorgeous, dangerous, mythic and horrific. A remarkable storyteller' - A.J. FINN<BR><BR>'Broke my heart a dozen times and held me spellbound throughout' - SARAH HILARY<BR><BR>'A creepy, clever and heartrending story, compelling and beautifully crafted' - EMMA HEALEY<BR><BR>'Atmospheric and achingly tender suspense from one of our most original writers' - ERIN KELLY

Buch | Englisch

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Nowhere Burning
* FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET *<BR><BR>'One of our finest literary horror writers' - SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'A dark, grimly compelling and very twisty tale' - GUARDIAN<BR>'A beguiling, haunting modern fairy tale' - DAILY EXPRESS<BR><BR>The Nowhere Children are expecting you...<BR><BR>High in the mountains sits Nowhere, a verdant valley surrounded by walls of rock. People have lived at Nowhere for centuries, though never for long, and rarely happily. Its last owner was its most famous: movie star Leaf Winham, who built Nowhere House as a refuge to hide from his fame... and to hide his crimes. Only when Nowhere House went up in flames were the graves discovered, the last resting places of lost young men who would never go home.<BR><BR>Years later, Nowhere valley has become a sanctuary for runaway children, a place where adults cannot enter. Drawn by this promise, fourteen-year-old Riley pulls her brother Oliver from his bed in the middle of the night, hoping to find a new family. But the Nowhere Children are fierce in defending their valley and their secrets. For something dark lives in the ruins of Nowhere House, something that asks a terrible price for sanctuary...<BR><BR>'Nowhere Burning is nothing short of spellbinding' - OLIVIE BLAKE<BR><BR>'So sharp and beautiful it draws blood and leaves scars' - GRADY HENDRIX<BR><BR>'Gorgeous, dangerous, mythic and horrific. A remarkable storyteller' - A.J. FINN<BR><BR>'Broke my heart a dozen times and held me spellbound throughout' - SARAH HILARY<BR><BR>'A creepy, clever and heartrending story, compelling and beautifully crafted' - EMMA HEALEY<BR><BR>'Atmospheric and achingly tender suspense from one of our most original writers' - ERIN KELLY

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Das letzte Haus in der Needless Street
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** AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF YEAR **<BR><BR>'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet' - GUARDIAN<BR>'A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession' - DAILY EXPRESS<BR><BR>Writers are monsters. We eat everything we see...<BR><BR>In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked their New England town. And it is the story of Sky, Wilder's one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir to turn it into a lurid bestselling novel, then died without ever explaining why.<BR><BR>This book is Wilder's last chance for revenge. But as he writes, he begins to find notes written in Sky's signature green ink, and events in his manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. Is Sky haunting him? And who is the dark-haired woman drowning in the cove, whom no one else can see? With his grip on reality slipping, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does...<BR><BR>'So beautiful, so dark and so vivid' - JENNIFER SAINT<BR>'A beautifully sinister tale of perception and identity' - JOANNE HARRIS<BR>'Enthralling and heartbreaking' - M.R. CAREY

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