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THE GIFT MAKER
MARK MAYES
... like Alice in Wonderland meets Nightmare on Elm Street with a dash of a trip on acid thrown in for fun…
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ate one night, Thomas Ruder receives a strange and anonymous package: a small blue box. Another such item is delivered to his girlfriend Liselotte Hauptmann. These ‘gifts’ will change their lives forever. In the far-off border town of Grenze, a play is to be performed. Reynard the impresario expects a very special audience. Thomas and Liselotte, together with their friend Johann, are drawn into Reynard’s seductive web – and if they are to be saved, Daumen the gift maker must decide who his master really is.
The Gift Maker is a story about identity, about fulfilling your dreams and becoming the person you always were, at whatever cost. The Gift Maker is a ‘rich complex gem of a novel of which David Lynch or Dennis Potter would be proud…the reader is taken on a journey through fairy tale, magic realism, gothic horror and allegory.’ ‘A finely written and magical book that you want to start reading again as soon as you get to the end.’ ‘I would place this author in the company of Poe, Lovecraft and Gaiman – and he deserves to be there.’
PUB DATE: 23 February 2017 ISBN: 9781911331773 PRICE: £8.99 EXTENT: 320 Pages DIMENSIONS: B format paperback CATEGORY: Literary BIC CODE: FM, FK, FW
ALL THE PLACES I’VE EVER LIVED DAVID GAFFNEY All the Places I’ve Ever Lived is part ghost story, part murder ballad, part crime thriller, and explores the themes of outsiders and difference, with a dark edge.
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5-year-old Barry wakes up one day to find that his body is covered in strange, metallic lumps. Living nine miles from Sellafield nuclear plant could be an explanation for this, but, actually, something more uncanny is going on. The evening before, a girl from Barry’s school, Philomena May, was brutally attacked and left in a ditch to die. Philomena’s ghost visits Barry and guides them both into the future, where Barry and the ghost girl’s purpose is to prevent the real-life
multiple shootings carried out in the same town by rampaging taxi driver Derrick Bird. The book flicks between 1976 and 2010, and explores the effect of horrendous crimes on small communities and the way the gradual accretion of small grudges can drive a person to mass murder. Readers are calling the book a thrilling mash-up of Edward Scissorhands, In Cold Blood, and Back To The Future. ‘A ruthless eye and pitchblack humour.’ The Observer
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PUB DATE: 26 February 2017 ISBN: 9781911331063 PRICE: £8.99 EXTENT: 320Pages DIMENSIONS: B format paperback CATEGORY: Literary thril er fiction BIC CODE: FA, FH REGIONS: World
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