Ghostland Author Forename:Edward

Ghostland Author Forename:EdwardSHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 'A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare 'An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country

A 2-in-1 edition of the romantic-comedy series where a student council president secretly works at a maid café

What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great

old James East had a jealous nurse

is offhandedly dismissed with contempt by Clinton Driffield as a cringing weakling

That's why she doesn't know as she's leaving a client's office late one night that Melac is waiting for her by the Bassin de la Villette-where an assailant attacks him just in time for Aimee to find his still-bleeding body in the canal

Parker makes the mistake of letting an amateur in on the score

Soon after the champagne starts to flow and the canapés are served

the worst criminals hide in plain sight and the devil has all the best tunes

Society is both appalled and intrigued

Burying their mother is already hard enough

no one is quite who they seem

'An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel'New York Times