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ALASDAIR WICKHAM
The Black Book of Modern Myths
publication: 05/05/2011
price: 14.99
size: Demy Octavo
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781846055706
Collection of new, true horror stories from around the world – in the
Vanishing Hitchhiker mode
The world is experiencing an epidemic of supernatural events.
For the most part they are unreported by conventional, print-based media,
but reports of them rage around cyberspace.
Many of these stories have achieved mythic status, like the stories in the
bestselling books of urban myths of the early eighties. The Black Book of
Modern Myths pulls together the most resonant of these stories, and reveals
the disturbing trends that lie beneath. One thing that distinguishes these
stories of the supernatural is that they are startlingly up to date.
Discarding olde worlde notions of the supernatural – black cloaks, and
bodices, deserted country graveyards at night – The Black Book of Modern
Myths shows us the supernatural caught in a bright digital glare.
Modern technology has recorded the supernatural visually and aurally like
never before. But could it also be opening portals to the demonic?
The Black Book of Myths is referred to in Dino Argento’s cult horror flicks.
Like its mythical inspiration, The Black Book of Modern Myths will be
cultish, new, horrific, sexy, stylish, bang up to date and in your face.
Alasdair Wickham is the pen name of James Buxton. Shortly after his
parents died, James Buxton went to live in his grandparent’s house,
which was haunted. He has taken the supernatural for granted ever
since and has been researching the field for the last thirty-five years. He
is a successful writer with four horror novels under his belt:
Subterranean, Strange, The Wishing Tree and Pity. He has written on the
supernatural for the Evening Standard, has worked on numerous
ghostwriting projects (no pun intended) and is currently writing the
second of a series of occult novels commissioned by Hachette for the
young adult market.
LISA JEWELL
The Making Of Us
publication: 05/05/2011
price: 12.99
size: Royal Octavo
pages: 400
ISBN: 9781846055744
The wonderful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of
After the Party
In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading
away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and
she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then
he tells her about the children he has never met and never will, conceived
with women he has never slept with, never even touched. Four of them,
apparently, two boys, two girls. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he
calls them.
Lydia, Robyn and Dean don’t know each other. Yet. And they are all
facing difficult challenges. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic
childhood and, although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and
disjointed. Until an unexpected letter from her long-lost uncle reveals a
shocking truth about her childhood.
Dean is a young man whose life is going nowhere. He is jobless and about
to have a baby with a girl who hates him. But then one afternoon, life flips
over and leaves him somewhere he never expected to be: a single dad to an
ill daughter and he is forced to re-evaluate his whole life.
Robyn is eighteen. She is training to be a doctor and is determined one day
to be a paediatrician, just like her father. She has never met her father.
Neither has her mother. He was an anonymous donor, and that’s exactly
what she wants him to stay – a character in her own personal fairy tale.
Until the day she meets the man of her dreams and falls in love. He looks
like her, he thinks like her, he even has the same freckle in the same place
on his left hand. It could be just a coincidence, but she needs to be sure
before she can allow herself to be with him. It’s time for her to open the
envelope her parents gave her on her eighteenth birthday.
And Daniel’s children slowly find their way into each other’s lives…
Lisa Jewell was born and raised in north London, where she lives with
her husband and two daughters. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the
bestselling debut of 1999. She is also the author of Thirtynothing, One-
Hit Wonder, Vince & Joy, A Friend of the Family, 31 Dream Street, The Truth
About Melody Browne and, most recently, After the Party, all of which have
been Sunday Times bestsellers. To find out more more about the author
visit her website at www.lisa-jewell.co.uk.