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Penance (Paperback)
Eliza Clark
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An utterly chilling, compulsive story of a murder among teenagers, on the eve of the historic Brexit vote, by a major new voice in British fiction.
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes? Did you see the pictures of the body? Did you look for them?
It's been years since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being published for the first time. That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable hands of journalist Alec. Z. Carelli, Clark allows him to construct what he claims is the 'definitive account' of the murder - and what led up to it. Built on hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves, the result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.
The only question is: how much of it is true?
A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023 'Hallucinogenic,
electric and sharp.' JESSICA ANDREWS 'Will make most readers howl
with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror.' GUARDIAN
**Pre-order Eliza Clark's next novel, PENANCE, now** Irina is in a
rut. She obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking
men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle while her dead-end bar
job slips away; she's more interested in drugs, alcohol, and
extreme cinema. When she's offered an exhibition at a fashionable
London gallery which promises to revive her career in the art
world, it should feel like an escape. But the news triggers a
self-destructive tailspin, drawing in her obsessive best friend and
a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her
attention . . . BOY PARTS is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza
Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly
exploring the taboos of sexuality and gender roles in the
twenty-first century. 'Smart, stylish, and very funny.' LARA
WILLIAMS 'Boundaries are for breaking and if anyone can crash
through and reinterpret the fear of our time, Eliza Clark can.'
MSLEXIA 'A carnival funhouse ride: terrifying, feverish,
hilarious.' JULIA ARMFIELD WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: 'A dark, funny,
nasty book. Brilliantly written, annoyingly good.' 5* reader review
'I am obsessed.' 5* reader review 'Both shocking and darkly funny,
this razor-sharp debut is unlike anything I've read before.' 5*
reader review 'I loved this, properly loved it!!' 5* reader review
'Left me both in awe and totally disturbed. Wow.' 5* reader review
A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023 'One of the summer's
most talked-about books.' SUNDAY TIMES 'An unmissable banger that
you need to preorder immediately.' ALICE SLATER 'A meta-meditation
on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.' TOM BENN
'You've never read anything like this.' JULIA ARMFIELD Do you know
what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the
internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes?
Did you see the pictures of the body? Did you look for them? It's
been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of
sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of
that terrible night are now being published for the first time.
That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling,
where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the
inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable
hands of journalist Alec Z. Carelli, Clark allows him to construct
what he claims is the 'definitive account' of the murder - and what
led up to it. Built on hours of interviews with witnesses and
family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably,
correspondence with the killers themselves, the result is a
riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in
turmoil. The only question is: how much of it is true? 'Deeply
disturbing and hilarious.' IMOGEN CRIMP 'Insanely propulsive . . .
She's a master of structure that Clark.' JENNY MUSTARD WHAT READERS
ARE SAYING: 'This will no doubt be THE book of the summer. You need
to pre-order this NOW.' @books.with.han 'Once again, Eliza Clark
conjures her dark magic to pen something disturbing and addictive.'
@mostardentlyalice 'Eliza's writing is pure brilliance and she
captivates you with every page.' @zoreadsbooks 'Taking aim at our
relationship with true crime, the brutality of teenage girls and
classicism, it was easily my favourite read of 2023 so far.'
@charlotte__reads_ 'So cleverly written I am mind blown.'
@jordslibrary 'Eliza Clark is a genius.' @mydarkgrace **Eliza
Clark's incendiary debut, Boy Parts, is available now**
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Penance
Eliza Clark
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One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 From the author
of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story
of murder among a group of teenage girls--a powerful and disturbing
novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline's
The Girls. On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire
coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three
other schoolgirls. Nearly a decade after the horrifying murder,
journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of
the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family
members, painstaking historical research, and most notably,
correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a
riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in
turmoil. But how much of the story is true? Compulsively readable,
provocative, and disturbing, Penance is a cleverly nuanced,
unflinching exploration of gender, class, and power that raises
troubling questions about the media and our obsession with true
crime while bringing to light the depraved side of human nature and
our darkest proclivities.
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Boy Parts (Paperback)
Eliza Clark
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An incendiary debut novel from a brash new talent--a pitch-black
comedy, both shocking and hilarious, which fearlessly explores
sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.
"Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind
exploration of gender, class, and power."--Jessica Andrews, author
of Saltwater Exiled from the art world and on sabbatical from her
dead-end bar job, Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of
the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted
from the streets of Newcastle. But her talent has not gone
unnoticed, and Irina is invited to display her work at a
fashionable London gallery. It is a chance to revive her career and
escape from the rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema she's
fallen into. Yet the news instead triggers a self-destructive
tailspin, centered around Irina's consuming relationship with her
best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has
attracted her attention. . . .
Middle-aged super fan Peter finds himself in a makeshift
interrogation room at the mercy of Comic Con security after
violating the restraining order placed against him by his favorite
television starlet. Meanwhile, spoiled starlet Chiara is holed up
in a hotel suite with her stage mom and bodyguard, trapped by the
demands that come with being a rising star. Peter is determined to
fulfill his destiny: a meeting with the twenty-three-year-old where
he can deliver her an important and mysterious
Eliza Clark brings her unique ability to blend comedy and suspense
in her nail-biting play, Edgewise. Work sucks, especially in the
middle of a war zone. It's just another Saturday flipping burgers
for three suburban teens, but when bombs start dropping and a
bloodied stranger staggers in, these kids deal with the unknown the
only way they know how - by tying it up. It's World War III at your
local burger joint. Eliza Clark's terrifying comedy, originally
produced by Page 73 Productions
A rising star in the theatre community, Eliza Clark, brings us her
innovative psychological thriller Recall. Lucy makes people
uncomfortable. There's something about her eyes. There's something
about the way her mother's boyfriends keep disappearing. And
there's something about the government agents on her trail.
Radically imaginative and achingly plain, Recall explores our need
to feel connected, understood and loved. No matter the damage, no
matter the cost. After receiving rave
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Handel... (Paperback)
Eliza Clarke
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R545
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Handel; The World's Workers Eliza Clarke Cassell, 1885
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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