Author of the Month: Sarah Moss
Selected by the Bookshop
Our Author of the Month for May is the novelist, essayist and literary critic Sarah Moss, currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University College Dublin.
Sarah Moss was born in Glasgow and brought up in Manchester, and the north often features in her work. Following the publication of her first novel Cold Earth, set in Greenland, she spent a year teaching at the University of Iceland, an experience described in her memoir Names for the Sea. Her latest novel The Fell, a suspenseful tale of lockdown in the Peak District, is one of the finest pieces of writing to have emerged from the pandemic. Have a browse through her titles here, and come and meet them in person in Bury Place throughout May.
From the publisher:
Acclaimed author of Summerwater and Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss is back with a sharply observed and darkly funny novel for our times.'A tense page turner . . . I gulped The Fell down in one sitting' - Emma Donoghue'This…
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Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse society under attack, they also come to uncover their own demons, as it becomes apparent that a plague pandemic is…
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At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, Sarah Moss and her husband moved with their two small children to Iceland. From their makeshift home among the half-finished skyscrapers of Reykjavik, Moss travels to hillsides of boiling mud…
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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021'Superb' - The Times'Sharp, searching . . . utterly of the moment' - Hilary Mantel'So accomplished' - GuardianIt is the summer solstice, but in a…
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Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter’s school to inform him that, for no…
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Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges…
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Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement.Ally (older sister of May in Night Waking),…
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Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so…
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