2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Finalist (winners announcement June 2016) __Christopher Ritchie shows he's a skilful writer, after his House of Pigs was also a finalist in the 2013 IndieFab Awards - "This is a grippingly surreal novel with an edgy narrative and visual touches reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining." SURREY LIFE magazine. 'The ordinary' is an allegory-laden horror-satire in which Stanley, one of the ordinary, is so evil his touch alone freezes girls' minds with fear; caught up in porn, in their teens, he captures and keeps them as trophies. While, 'the ordinary' feed from humanity's rot intent on bringing about the next phase for the human race. Amid this dark descent humanity's fight for survival, as with retired policeman Rob, his son Jez and girlfriend Maria, seems doomed by its own dark, arrogant dehumanizing of women.

Die britische TV-Moderatorin Juliette Foster schrieb: Finalist beim Indies 2013 BOOK AWARD, in der Kategorie HORROR. "Christopher Ritchie bewies sein Talent als Schriftsteller mit seinem Roman "The Ordinary", mit dem er 2015 den Indies BOOK AWARD in der Kategorie HORROR gewann. Dieser verstoerende Roman von Christopher Ritchie erhielt viel Beifall und dies verdientermassen, denn er schickt den Leser auf eine Reise voller Angst und Verunsicherung, die seine Vorstellungskraft fordert und bei Weitem die Grenzen des "Normalen" uberschreitet. Eine Welt, in der nichts so ist wie es scheint. Wahrend eines Routineeinsatzes verandert sich die Lage fur Officer Joe Gullidge rasant: Gefangen in einer Verkettung von schrecklichen und unheimlichen Begegnungen, die sich tief in seiner Seele einbrennen, gerat er wiederwillig in eine Suche nach der Wahrheit, in der sein Verstand sich muht, zwischen der Realitat und den Erscheinungen einer Parallelwelt zu unterscheiden. Ist Gullys Reise eine Metapher fur die tiefere, auf eine unentrinnbare Vergangenheit grundende Realitat oder gibt es eine einfachere Erklarung als zunachst gedacht? Der Roman Der Schatten der Schweine fallt angesichts der Komplexitat der Ideen und der Vielschichtigkeit in der Interpretation sicherlich nicht unter die Kategorie "Leichte Lekture" - aber dies sind seine Starken und keine Schwachen. Es ist ein ergreifender, surrealer Roman voller Spannung und filmischer Sequenzen, die an Stephen Kings Shining erinnern." HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS schrieb: "Erst nach der Lekture wird man in der Lage sein, Ritchies Ideen im Ansatz zu begreifen. Seine standig wechselnden Welten ... katapultieren auch Sie in eine unterhaltsame Schleife." REBBIE REVIEWS schrieb: "Dieses Buch wird Sie mit einigen tatsachlich schonungslosen und blutrunstigen Passagen erschaudern lassen ... Ich liebe diese Bildersprache und das Tempo."

A witty, wacky satire on the end of the world from Book Award writer Christopher Ritchie. When Marty Molloy goes about his usual business and finds himself drawn into rescuing a young girl from an attack, little does he know she's Earth's last angel on a mission to stop the `false apocalypse' that occurred just over 100 years earlier. Civilisation was all but destroyed following the third world war - the result of political squabbling and growing racial, sexual and religious hate and distrust. Now the angel's mission becomes Marty's: to assemble his own team of Horsemen, to travel back in time to stop the sinister force behind it all, and to save humankind. This bold, hilarious and thought-provoking satire is inspired by the events of 2016-2017 - but its question is timeless: is humanity worth saving? Previously published in episodic format, this novel is the complete collection. Expand your mind - and your vocabulary - and watch out for Red. He's hungry.

2013 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist __"This brain-twister of a novel, by horror author Christopher Ritchie, has won plenty of acclaim and deservedly so as he takes the reader on a frightening, disturbing journey that tests the imagination, pushing it beyond the limits of 'normal'. When officer Joe Gullidge is sent on a routine police call, the situation rapidly descends into a sequence of horrifically unsettling events that eat into the very depths of his soul. As 'Gully' is dragged into a reluctant search for the truth, his conscious mind struggles to separate reality from the suggestion of a parallel world. Is Gully's journey a metaphor for the deeper reality of an inescapable past - or is the explanation more straightforward than it initially appears? House of Pigs doesn't fall into the 'easy read' category given the complexity of its ideas and multiple layers of interpretation - but these are strengths not weaknesses. This is a grippingly surreal novel with an edgy narrative and visual touches reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining."SURREY LIFE magazine (UK) Sep 2015 (p.1 09), Juliette Foster__ More REVIEWS__"House of Pigs will horrify you with some really gritty and gory events...I love the imagery and the pace": Rebbie Reviews__"Needs to be read to even begin to grasp Ritchie's vision...His alternate worlds may throw you for an entertaining loop": Vitina Molgaard, Horror Novel Reviews

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