Candlenight - Hardcover
A debut novel from this BBC journalist, set in Wales and exploring what happens to an English journalist and his wife when they settle in a remote, superstitious Welsh village.
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About the Author:
Phil Rickman is the author of the Merrily Watkins Mystery series.
From Publishers Weekly:
This heartfelt account of Celtic terror by British author Rickman is more a socio-political commentary on globalization and nationalism than a horror novel. In Wales, where hoards of English immigrants buy up the land and dilute the cultural identity, folks in the town of Y Groes uphold the ancient traditions. There, the air is clearer, the light brighter and the population blessedly free of English inhabitants until the arrival of Claire and Giles Freeman. Giles tries desperately to fit in with the old-fashioned locals, but things become strained when his Welsh wife starts to transform into some sort of Druid priestess. An inordinate number of English deaths in this tiny town prompts Giles's American journalist buddy to investigate. Rickman's expertise with pastoral horror is reminiscent of Algernon Blackwood or Arthur Machen. He evokes a frigid beauty in the peaceful countryside peppered with pagan cemeteries and populated by angry people whose hatred is as hard and unyielding as their oak forests and black books of forbidden lore. So strong are his characterizations, he needs but a whiff of the supernatural to support his idea of the corruption of magic. Although Candlenight is only Rickman's second novel to be published here, it should add to the acclaim he received for Curfew.
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- PublisherDuckbacks
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0715623842
- ISBN 13 9780715623848
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages372
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Candlenight
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(1991)
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ISBN 13: 9780715623848
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. first edition, first impression hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Bright copy with no inscriptions, some shelf-wear (a little rubbing and pushing to corners and spine ends). [C6abo]. Seller Inventory # ABE-1699265470740
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Black cloth-covered boards with bright silver-gilt titling and publisher's 'duck' logo to the spine. Slight 'bumping' to the head/tail of the spine due to storage only, but NO damage just a slight 'push' each end. In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket, overall a Very Good dust-jacket but with one tiny 'closed' nick to the top rear of the d/j spine, now neatly repaired to the reverse of the d/j with clear archive tape. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG Plus. Some very pale spotting (very Iight foxing) to the page fore-edges - hardly noticable. Internally plain endpapers and NO inscriptions or major marks, apart from the AUTHOR's Dedication Note and SIGNATURE in black biro onto the Title page = "To Sue with best wishes Phil Rickman". "For Bethan, a schoolteacher, the old superstitions woven into the social fabric of her West Wales village are primitive and distasteful, which is why she's pleased to welcome the sophisticated newcomers - Journalist Giles Freeman and his wife Claire - who are thrilled when they inherit a cottage far from the noise of the city. And though the rest of the locals are slow to welcome them, the Freemans believe that in time they will be accepted. But the Freemans have fallen under an ancient Celtic curse - and soon they will learn the truth about what it means to be outsiders." . The Author's Stand-alone First Book/Debut Novel. See Images; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 114775
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