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Where the Dead Wait
Ally Wilkes
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R742
R629
Discovery Miles 6 290
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer
in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption--from the
author of the "vivid, immersive" (The Guardian) horror novel All
the White Spaces. William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic
explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men
only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in
disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse
Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this
is Day's chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing
Stevens----the man who's haunted his whole life--back home. But
when the rescue mission becomes an uncanny journey into his past,
Day must face up to the things he's done. Abandonment. Betrayal.
Cannibalism. Aboard ship, Day must also contend with unwanted
passengers: a reporter obsessively digging up the truth about the
first expedition, as well as Stevens's wife, a spirit-medium whose
séances both fascinate and frighten. Following a trail of cryptic
messages, gaunt bodies, and old bones, their search becomes more
and more unnerving, as it becomes clear that the restless dead are
never far behind. Something is coming through.
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Where the Dead Wait
Ally Wilkes
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R265
R216
Discovery Miles 2 160
Save R49 (18%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Terror meets Yellowjackets as a disgraced Arctic explorer sets
out on a voyage to track down his former crewmate, only to be
confronted by the ghosts of his cannibalistic past; from the Bram
Stoker Award nominated author of All the White Spaces. Perfect for
fans of Michelle Paver and Stephen Graham Jones. William Day should
be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition to
find the fabled Open Polar Sea, in which his men only survived by
eating their comrades, he returned in disgrace. A cannibal. A
murderer. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse
Stevens, has gone missing in the same waters. Perhaps this is
Day’s chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing
Stevens – the man who’s haunted his whole life – back home.
But when the rescue mission into the frozen wastes becomes an
uncanny journey into his own past, Day must face up to the things
he’s done. Aboard ship, Day must also contend with unwanted
passengers: a reporter obsessively digging up the truth about the
first expedition, and Stevens’s wife, a spiritualist whose
séances both fascinate and frighten. Following a trail of cryptic
messages, gaunt bodies, and old bones, their search becomes more
and more unnerving, as it becomes clear that – for Day – the
restless dead are never far behind.
A vivid ghost story exploring identity, gender and selfhood, set
against the backdrop of the golden age of polar exploration.
Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights and Michelle
Paver's Thin Air. In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan
Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find
his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary
ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis"
Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self-and true gender-and
have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is
smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and
grief, guilt, and mistrust skulk among the explorers. When disaster
strikes in Antarctica's frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to
the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both
eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn maps
of the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, Randall's
expedition has no ability to contact the outside world. And no one
is coming to rescue them. In the freezing darkness of the Polar
night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible
has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape... As
the harsh Antarctic winter descends, this supernatural force will
prey on their deepest desires and deepest fears to pick them off
one by one. It is up to Jonathan to overcome his own ghosts before
he and the expedition are utterly destroyed.
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