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This short and piquant retelling of the Faust legend goes down a treat. Our hero is newspaperman Eustace Bogges, who handles the letters-to-the-editor feature of the fictional Washington Oracle. Overweight, prickly, vain, and intellectually astute, Booges is the sort of vivid character John Kennedy Toole might have given us if "A Confederacy of Dunces" had been set in D.C. rather than New Orleans.
Boggesâs complacency begins to unravel when he is hauntedâfirst in reveries, then in realityâby psychiatrist Grippin Fall, who happens to be the Devil. From this latter-day Mephisto our hero learns the true story behind such momentous events as the emergence of humankind (Eve was an ape-woman who achieved self-awareness) and the invention of money (Croesusâs grandfather Sadyattes was responsible). The demonic compact Dr. Fall proposes is simple: âListen to me, Mr. Bogges, and the world will listen to you.â And what principle does Bogges wish theâŠ
Devil Take It is a sharp, darkly comic satire set against the backdrop of Trump-era Washington, D.C.Â
In this clever and timely moral fable, Satan arrives on the scene disguised as Dr. Grippin Fall, a psychiatrist with a peculiar diagnosis for Eustace Bogges, the editor of the Washington Oracleâs letters page: mortality. As the Devil guides Bogges through a series of bizarre therapy sessions, he entices him with a doctrine of laughter and mirth inspired by the 16th-century writer François Rabelais. Meanwhile, Bogges, under a pseudonym, pens a letter to his own page suggesting that society would be better offâŠ
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to runâŠ
Loved a bold revisit to Shirley Jacksonâs Hill House. The writing was fantastic at immersing me within the unease of the house, the clash between characters and Handâs brilliant capture of the undefinable spaces of Hill House that echoed Jacksonâs but retained their own originality. A great psychological horror with all the gothic trappings but a modern setting.
THE FIRST AUTHORISED FOLLOW-UP NOVEL TO THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
'A fitting - and frightening - homage to The Haunting of Hill House ' NEW YORK TIMES 'Full of totemic menace and a heart-in-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Beautifully creepy. Welcome back to Hill House' ALIX E. HARROW 'Like Hill House itself, this accomplished tribute stands alone: disturbing and unforgettable' GUARDIAN 'A Haunting on the Hill captures the essence of the original whilst offering something brand new' CARLY REAGON
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar**
