Exploring the nature of obsession and entrapment, this novel is fortified by a strong dose of the macabre. It also displays a fascination with haunting, and -- with more than a sinister nod to the ghost story -- it probes the absences of fathers and ...
Beside a lake in the northern Canadian wilderness, fifteen-year-old Zachary Tayler lives a lonely and isolated life with his father. His only neighbors are a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire, and an expert in snow. But then one summer the enig...
From the remote forests of northern Ontario to a Neolithic burial chamber on the coast of north Wales, from a frozen lake in the Canadian wilderness to a mysterious Welsh heath, Shattercone takes the reader on a strange, compelling and sometimes hear...