Shriek
25 January 2018Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix.
Janice Shriek, ex-society figure, narrates this tale with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions. We follow the adventures of her brother Duncan, an historian obsessed with a doomed love affair, and learn of a secret that may kill or transform him. We witness a war between rival publishing...
Details
25 January 2018464 pages
9781509848140Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humourChina Miéville
Challenging, intelligent and downright fun
Guardian
There are touches of Borges and Nabokov as well as H. P. Lovecraft in this tale of changing fortunes and shifting relationships . . . atmosphericThe Times
Five stars . . . from an author who should be turning heads in the 'serious' literary worldBBC Focus Magazine
