'Brilliant-an artist of great imaginative power' Sunday Times
John Fowles (Author)
John Fowles was born in 1926. He won international recognition with
The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was
immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of
exceptional imaginative power, and this reputation was confirmed
with the appearance of his subsequent works- The Aristos, The
Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel
Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot. John Fowles died in Lyme Regis in
2005. Two volumes of his Journals have recently been published; the
first in 2003, the second in 2006.
Evie Wyld (Introducer)
Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one
graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin
Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction
Prize and the European Union Prize. In 2013 she was included in
Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She
is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and helps run an
independent bookshop in Peckham called Review.
He has a magnificent narrative gift...brilliant
*Independent*
A brilliant, unusual theme... Short and spare and direct, an
intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones
*Sunday Times*
Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power
*Sunday Times*
No book will make you appreciate the great outdoors more than this
creepy locked-room horror story
*Guardian*
There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that
its author is a master storyteller
*New York Times*
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