Evie Wyld Bücher

Die Leben dreier Frauen verweben sich über Jahrhunderte hinweg in diesem strahlenden und ermutigenden Porträt ihrer Widerstandskraft. Der Bass Rock, der aus dem Meer aufsteigt, hat stets die Leben beobachtet, die im Schatten seiner Präsenz auf dem schottischen Festland verlaufen. Über die Jahrhunderte sind die Schicksale von Sarah, Ruth und Viv untrennbar mit diesem Ort und miteinander verbunden: Sarah, die der Hexerei beschuldigt wird, flieht um ihr Leben; Ruth, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in eine neue Ehe navigiert und sich in den seltsamen Gewässern der lokalen Gemeinschaft zurechtfinden muss; und sechs Jahrzehnte später katalogisiert Viv, die noch um den Tod ihres Vaters trauert, Ruths Besitztümer im nun leeren Haus. Während sich die Geschichten der Frauen entfalten, wird immer deutlicher, dass ihre Entscheidungen in vielerlei Hinsicht von den Männern eingeschränkt werden, die versuchen, sie zu kontrollieren. Doch in der Schwesternschaft liegt auch die Möglichkeit des Überlebens und eines neuen Lebens.

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and London - from the bestselling author of The Bass RockMax 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 Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story, but the past refuses to stay hidden. It finds expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with, the details of their lives she never knew and the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max.Both a celebration and autopsy of a relationship, The Echoes is a novel about stories and who has the right to tell them, asking what of our past can we shrug off and what is fixed forever.

From Granta's Best Young British Novelists, this award-winning novel follows Jake Whyte, an outsider in a remote farmhouse on a stormy British island. As she faces threats to her sheep and confronts her haunting past, the story explores themes of struggle, survival, and redemption with exceptional artistry.

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. When war breaks out again, Leon must go from sculpting sugar figurines to killing young men as a conscript in the Vietnam War.

'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 redefine terror. From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent's corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. READERS ARE OBSESSED 'Stunning' 'Well-plotted and horrifying' 'Visceral, creepy, gory... stays in your head long after reading them' 'It's so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it's going to be a banger... bravo' 'Spine-tingling... I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story' 'Often unusual, always unique... a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror'