although reading about the post-mortems carried out by a forensic pathologist was gruelling in places, the dedication and respect that Dr Shepherd obviously brought to his profession was educational and inspiring. There are fascinating descriptions of his cases, which involved the victims of many high-profile disasters. These are interwoven with an honest account of the damage to his mental health and family life that was exerted by his work until he found happiness in later life.
it can be read as a suspenseful eco-thriller but is also a serious literary novel that explores some complex themes. The novel has a slow start, but gathers pace. From the story of an undercover environmental group operating around New Zealand I learned more about the culture and geography of my adopted country.
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βBirnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, itβs as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured workβwhat a treat.β βStephen King β βA generational cri de coeur . . . A sophisticated page-turner . . . Birnam Wood nearly made me laugh with pleasure. The whole thing crackles . . . Greta Gerwig could film this novel, but so could Quentin Tarantino.β βDwight Garner, The New York Times
The Booker Prizeβwinning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama andβ¦
I've always been interested in paranormal phenomena. Mark Anthony, being an Oxford-trained lawyer as well as a psychic medium, discusses after-death communication from a more academic viewpoint than is found in most popular books on this topic. He combines case histories of his clients with a review of scientific research.
OMMIE Award for Best Metaphysical Book Best Holistic Life Award for Inspirational Book of the Year 2023 Named a Gold Winner in the Reincarnation, Death & Grieving Books category of the 2022 COVR Visionary Awards
In this fascinating book, the Psychic Lawyer takes you on a quest for answers β and finds them! World-renowned psychic medium and Oxford-educated attorney Mark Anthony bridges the divide between faith and science in this fascinating afterlife exploration, taking you around the globe, from the cosmic to the subatomic, and into the human soul itself. Combining physics, neuroscience, and riveting true stories, this book:
At a funeral in an English country churchyard, a stranger appears among the mourners, a young woman in a yellow coat who claims to be the dead man's secret daughter. Dr Nicolas Harper was respected in his profession and a tyrant behind closed doors. Now that he is gone, his two adult children must confront the truth about who he really was and what he was capable of. His daughter Hilda, a reclusive cat-lover living alone in a marshland cottage, is disturbed but driven. She begins digging into her family's buried past: a father who led a double life, a mother whose early death was never properly explained, and decades of silence that someone may have worked very hard to maintain. Her brother Dunstan, already fragile, is horrified by the revelation. Desperate to protect the family name, he takes matters into his own hands, with catastrophic consequences. Moving between rural Kent and Sussex in 2005 and vivid flashbacks to postwar Oxford and the shadowy 1960s London nightclub scene, You Yet Shall Die builds to the discovery of a long-ago crime and a twist that will stop you cold. Perfect for fans of gripping British psychological mysteries with dark family secrets, complex female protagonists, and elegantly plotted historical twists.
