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Set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future'A book that will stay with you for ever' OBSERVERMax didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him.In the weeks and months before...

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Set in eastern Australia, this debut tells the story of the sometimes difficult relationship between fathers and sons. 'In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two of the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both' "Daily Mail

Bass Rock, eine unbewohnte Felseninsel vor der schottischen Küste, wirft seit Jahrhunderten ihren Schatten auf das Festland und seine Bewohner. Neu unter ihnen: Ruth Hamilton, die in den Jahren nach dem Krieg mit ihrem Mann und zwei Stiefsöhnen in ein zugiges Landhaus an der Küste zieht. Sie zum ersten Mal schwanger und zunehmend auf sich allein gestellt: die Stiefkinder im Internat, der Mann für Wochen in seiner Londoner Kanzlei. Als Großstäd...

A modern gothic triumph' Max PorterThe Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other.In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life.In the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth navigates a new house, a new husband and the strange waters of the local community. Six decade...

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A modern gothic triumph. Spectacularly well-observed, profoundly disquieting and utterly riveting. Like all Evie Wyld's work it is startlingly insightful about psychological and physical abuse. It is a haunting, masterful novel.' -Max PorterSurging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this plac...

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Un thriller ambientato tra un'isola britannica senza nome e l'implacabile deserto australiano. Jake Whyte vive in un'isola britannica battuta dal vento e dalla pioggia, un cane e un gregge di pecore come unica compagnia. Ma quando, notte dopo notte, le sue pecore vengono orribilmente smembrate, in Jake si ridesta un terrore che teneva a centinaia di miglia di distanza, abbandonato nell'impietoso sole australiano, mentre gli uccelli incombono s...

Following the breakdown of a turbulent relationship, Frank moves from Canberra to a shack on the east coast once owned by his grandparents. There, among the sugar cane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life. Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parents' bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when he's conscripted as a machine-gunner in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly con...

Tells the story of the life of an outsider, Jake, the sole resident of a farmhouse on an unnamed British island, with just a dog and a flock of sheep. Emotionally profound, revealing an existence of diurnal beauty, incremental horrors, stubborn hope and tentative redemption. Follow-up to the acclaimed "After The Fire", by an author named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.

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Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds, with only her collie and a flock of sheep as companions. But something--or someone--has begun picking off her sheep one by one. There are foxes in the woods, a strange man wandering the island, and rumors of a mysterious beast prowling at night. And there is Jake's relentless past--one she tried to escape thousands of mile...

Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Jonathan Cape.

Jake is de nieuwe, jonge bewoonster van een oude boerderij op een desolaat Brits eiland waar de wind altijd waait. Ze heeft alleen haar hond en een kudde schapen als gezelschap, en zo ziet ze het graag. Maar nu wordt haar bestaan in afzondering bedreigd. Iets of iemand heeft het op haar schapen gemunt. Elke paar nachten wordt er een dier aan stukken gereten. Wat zit hierachter? Zijn het vossen, zijn het mensen, of is het soms dat mysterieuze b...

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.

After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank struggles to rebuild his life among the sugarcane and sand dunes that surround his oceanside shack. Forty years earlier, Leon is drafted to serve in Vietnam and finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father. As these two stories weave around each other-each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierce-we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and w...