High John the Conqueror

A Novel

High John the Conqueror
Tariq Goddard
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 328pg
8 Nov 2022 UK
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9781914420306
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When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult. "I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead. "WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian of the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals on the estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And the Queen of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with a visit to the city' s famous cathedral spire. Into this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead that "posh people are taking our children". Blending mysticism, class war, societal malfeasance and transcendence, High John The Conqueror identifies the point in our recent history when the ghosts of our past become the political monsters of the present.
"Deranged police procedural meets darkly comic folk horror in Wild Wild Wessex. Utterly mesmerising. " "It' s going to be every outsider' s beach read, a doorway into the future. " "Enchanting. Goddard here comes into his own as the Gris-Gris man of English fiction. " "Here, as in all of Tariq Goddard' s fiction, the ordinary and the uncanny, the mundane and the metaphysical-above all, the sardonic and the profound-merge with one another in some mysterious borderland that he alone seems to have explored. " "A masterwork of the uncanny. A trip into fresh, bizarre, thrilling new territory. Reading it is almost a hallucinatory experience-it takes daring swerves away from what we call reality, but stays close enough to life to get under your skin. By the end you' ll be altered on a cellular level, questioning what you thought you knew. " "A wyrd & eerie tale for wyrd & eerie times, High John the Conqueror is, like High John de Conqueror itself, ' a genuine hybrid and a one-off,' crafting & grafting police noir, folk horror and occult parapolitics into an altered States of the Nation novel of monsters past and present. PD James meets MR James!" "This book is brilliant and crackles with wit, invention and insight. "
Tariq Goddard was born in London in 1975. His first three novels were short listed for various awards including Whitbread (Costa) First Novel Award, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Commonwealth Writer' s Prize. His fourth and fifth books won the Independent Publishers Gold medal for Horror Writing and Silver medal for Literary Fiction respectively. He lives on a farm in Wiltshire with his wife and children and is the Publisher of Repeater Books.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781914420306
Published: 8 Nov 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Repeater Books
Publisher: Watkins Media
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 328

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