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Someone Is Walking on Your Grave

Emma — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cemeteries are living, breathing places of reflection, obsession and revelation. In 'Somebody is Walking on Your Grave', Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more remote, decrepit, hidden or secretly beautiful ones.

Our share of night

Emma — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

From cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed”…one of the best novels of the 21st century” – Paul Tremblay”…a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power” – Alan Moore His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him.For years, they have exploited his father’s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor.Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free?Spanning the brutal decades of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.

Our Share of Night

Emma — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“…one of the best novels of the 21st century” – Paul Tremblay”…a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power.” – Alan Moore”…her novel is going to haunt me for the rest of my life” – Kelly Link, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize”A singular, soul-rattling novel… I’ve never read anything like it and I’ll never forget my time in Enriquez’s mesmerizing world.” -Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author”…this novel is a masterpiece and a true original.” – Laura van den Berg—From cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in BedHis father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him.For years, they have exploited his father’s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor.Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free?Spanning the brutal decades of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Emma — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE’Beautiful, horrible… the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time’ Kazuo Ishiguro’Smoky, carnal, dazzling’ Lauren GroffWelcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge.’There is some serious power in this writing’ Daisy Johnson