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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts, reviews & biographies of exceptional gothic novels
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The Outlander
by Gil Adamson
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 30 Jun 2009
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| In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow—and her husband's killer. |
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The Likeness: A Novel
by Tana French
Hardcover: Jul 2008
Paperback: 26 May 2009
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| The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods. |
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Ghostwalk
by Rebecca Stott
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 3 Jun 2008
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| Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton’s alchemy. |
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Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel.
by Joe Hill
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 1 Apr 2008
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| A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror. |
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The Austere Academy: Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5
by Lemony Snicket
Hardcover: Aug 2000
Paperback: 1 Apr 2008
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| Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic--attending school is a welcome change for the book-loving trio, and the academy is allegedly safe from the dreaded Count Olaf, who is after their fortune. |
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House of Meetings
by Martin Amis
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 8 Jan 2008
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| In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in Moscow. The fraternal conflict then continues in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. |
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The Terror: A Novel
by Dan Simmons
Hardcover: Jan 2007
Paperback: 1 Dec 2007
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| The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph; part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, they set out in the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage. Years later, trapped in a landscape of encroaching ice and darkness, endlessly cold, and with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive as an unseen predator stalks their ship. |
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 9 Oct 2007
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| A love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life. |
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