This is an excellent book that takes a knowingly controversial theme and spins it into something altogether unexpected. It's a very original premise, that puts a character into an all to plausible situation, and it speaks volumes about the fractious nature of society in the UK and elsewhere at the tail end of 2025. Highly recommended.
This Is England meets Taxi Driver in this violent, propulsive novel written for these dark times.When Henry Oswald loses everything in a gas explosion in his hometown, he stumbles from disaster to disaster before being picked up by a local community group full of good intentions. Yet beneath their veneer of benevolence lies hatred and division. Half-in and half-out of the group, Henry must make a choice between redemption and darkness, knowing that violence will come with either...Lionhearts is a violent trip into the backwaters of Northern England, exploring the rage and isolation of the population and delivering a timely…
The winner of the 2023 Booker prize for good reason. This is a brutal, unflinching look at the impact on an ordinary, hardworking family of an increasingly repressive government regime. Its simplicity is disarming. Its impact is huge.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A prophetic masterpiece." — Ron Charles, Washington Post
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she…
An astonishing book that thoroughly deserves its cult/classic status. Truly horrible, yet eminently readable from start to finish. I wish I hadn't read this book, though only because I'd love to experience it again for the first time.
A psychological thriller from the author of the AUTUMN and HATER novels (optioned for film by Guillermo del Toro).
Heading home late after a night out, Adam and Lucy Logan are involved in a horrific road rage incident. Their car is forced off a bridge and ends up at the bottom of a swollen, fast-flowing river. Adam survives but Lucy drowns, trapped inside the sinking wreck.
When he's released from hospital, Adam vows to hunt down the driver responsible for his wife's death and take revenge. But according to the police the roads around the bridge were empty. There was no other car.
His world is turned upside down again when Lucy returns from the grave: an impossible shadow of her former self.
Adam's feelings for Lucy overtake his fear, and together they realise their only option is to find out what really happened on the bridge that tragic night. Until then, Lucy remains trapped on the fringes of reality between life and death. She's shadowlocked.
But the deeper Adam digs, the more he begins to realise there was much of Lucy's life - and subsequently her death - that he knew nothing about.
“SHADOWLOCKED is a poignant portrait of grief that quickly descends into a tale of paranoia, distrust, and hatred. With more left turns than an M. Night Shyamalan film, this one will give you whiplash.”—Michael David Wilson, THIS IS HORROR founder and the author of THE GIRL IN THE VIDEO
Praise for David Moody:
"Moody is as imaginative as Barker, as compulsory as King, and as addictive as Palahniuk." —Scream the Horror Magazine
