Daisy Johnson

Dark folktales retold for modern times by some of the most exciting women writing today, from Daisy Johnson to Eimear McBride

A hypnotic and haunting work of fiction about losing yourself and finding your family, Long Wave is the finest novel yet from Booker-shortlisted Daisy Johnson Close to the shore is the island: uninhabited, wild, with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother. When she has a baby of her own, the job of motherhood feels immense and sleepless nights begin to shatter her grip on reality. Her head fills with the sound of stones knocking against each other and the mystery of her past begins to unravel, opening a path to the mother she lost, and the mother she could become. Years earlier, on a sweltering summer day, ten-year-old Ruth sees a woman and her baby walk into the river and disappear. But she is the only witness, and the water yields no trace. Ruth’s mother Edith locks her daughter away – first to restrain these wild imaginings, and later, when she falls pregnant, to hide the shame. Ruth longs to escape and dreams of the nearby island, where she and her baby can finally be free. Told with mythic power and lyrical precision, Long Wave is an extraordinary novel of longing and loss, rebirth and survival.

‘The British literary heir to Stephen King’ Sunday Times'Striking: it should be read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting' Observer'As splendidly written as it is haunting' i'The contemporary literary scene would be a poorer place without Daisy Johnson around' Financial TimesA triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final pageA place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations –yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore.On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women...They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.*** PRAISE FOR SISTERS ***'[A] gothic masterpiece... You can't stop reading' i news'Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country' Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers'A short, sharp virtuoso tale of literary horror' BOOKSELLER'Deeply unnerving and unnervingly prescient.' VOGUE'Poetic, haunting prose to be savoured slowly' EVENING STANDARD'I LOVE THIS BOOK! Explosive, dark, weird and utterly compelling... After reading Sisters, I binged on Fen and Everything Under and am now obsessed - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory

""A Ghost in the Wind chronicles the life and journey of an English exchange student in America. Her discontent and naivety transforms into a quest to pursue her dreams at all costs, when she crosses paths with Cody, a married American, as complicated as he is desirous. A Ghost in the Wind is as much a love letter to America, as it is a story of finding oneself in an ongoing battle of survival. As they take off drug-fuelled adventures and traipse across America, they realise there are greater stakes at play. Grappling with the collapse of the American Dream, the unnamed narrator ricochets across the globe, insisting on keeping a raw love alive. A feminist novel, A Ghost in the Wind, highlights the struggles of being a woman in the 21st century, whilst navigating a world that feels like it is on the brink of collapse. ""

‘The British literary heir to Stephen King’ Sunday Times'Striking: it should be read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting' Observer'As splendidly written as it is haunting' i'The contemporary literary scene would be a poorer place without Daisy Johnson around' Financial TimesA triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final pageA place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations –yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore.On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women...They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.*** PRAISE FOR SISTERS ***'[A] gothic masterpiece... You can't stop reading' i news'Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country' Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers'A short, sharp virtuoso tale of literary horror' BOOKSELLER'Deeply unnerving and unnervingly prescient.' VOGUE'Poetic, haunting prose to be savoured slowly' EVENING STANDARD'I LOVE THIS BOOK! Explosive, dark, weird and utterly compelling... After reading Sisters, I binged on Fen and Everything Under and am now obsessed - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory

Gastkramande och klaustrofobiskt om syskonkärlek och besatthet Födda med tio månaders mellanrum är systrarna July och September starkt sammansvetsade och behöver bara varandra. När något händer i systrarnas skola lämnar de Oxford och flyttar till ett förfallet hus i Yorkshire.Isolerad på landet upptäcker July att det djupa band hon delat med September förändras på ett sätt hon inte kan förstå. Huset tycks leva sitt eget liv och en känsla av oro smyger sig in. Samtidigt utmanar July och September varandra i en mörk lek som ingen vet hur den kommer att sluta.Systrar är en kraftfull och djupt berörande berättelse om syskonkärlek och vad som händer när två systrar försöker förstå var den ena slutar och den andra börjar. "En av årets tio bästa böcker" - Publishers Weekly "En av sin generations mest spännande författare" - Entertainment Weekly "Gripande, känslosam och kraftfull" - Max Porter "Spöklikt, sinnligt, sensationellt" - The TimesDaisy Johnson, född 1990, är en brittisk författare. Hennes debutroman Everything Under nominerades till Man Booker Prize 2018.

Rozhdennye s raznitsej vsego v desjat mesjatsev, Ijul i Sentjabr nerazluchny, oni ne nuzhdajutsja ni v kom, krome drug druga. Posle intsidenta s travlej v shkole devochki vmeste s materju perebirajutsja v bolshoj semejnyj dom na poberezhe, kotoryj dolgo pustoval. V novoj zhizni, takoj dalekoj ot vsekh i vsego, Ijul obnaruzhivaet, chto kharakter ikh otnoshenij s sestroj postepenno menjaetsja neozhidannym obrazom. V dome poseljaetsja atmosfera strakha i trevogi. Devochki rasshirjajut granitsy dozvolennogo v svoikh igrakh do tekh por, poka ne vyzyvajut tsepochku shokirujuschikh sobytij, kotorye predshestvujut pugajuschim otkrytijam ob ikh proshlom i buduschem.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR " A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book." --Financial Times "It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan." --The New York Times Book Review "Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely." --Time From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. "One of her generation's most intriguing authors" (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior--until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls' past and future. Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as "entrancing" (The New Yorker), "a force of nature" (The New York Times Book Review), and "weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling" (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache--a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other's darkest impulses.

An original collection of personal essays blending food writing and memoir, and exploring subjects ranging from the significance of Chers hors doeuvres in the film Mermaids, to the way in which food can become a language we use to communicate things that are too difficult to say, via a history of cookbooks that have their foundations in grieving and loss, and one writers experience of the six kitchens shes made her own over the years.Funny, astute and thought provoking, In the Kitchen explores the importance of food in and out of the kitchen.

'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday TimesDARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men.From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today. 'A thoroughly original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times'Sharp writing and cleverly done' Spectator

Posle volnenij, v odnochase okhvativshikh goroda na vsekh kontinentakh, mir izmenilsja kardinalnym obrazom. Novoe tsivilizatsionnoe ustrojstvo predostavljaet kazhdomu vse, chto dushe ugodno - muzhchiny i zhenschiny mogut provodit vremja v nepreryvnykh razvlechenijakh, denno i noschno zanimajas seksom, uchastvuja v sportivnykh igrakh, balujas legkimi narkotikami... vot tolko chelovecheskaja zhizn ogranichena 30 godami i vsjakogo, kto peresek etot vozrastnoj rubezh, ozhidaet dobrovolnoe unichtozhenie. Odnako ne vse grazhdane idut na smert soznatelno - i dlja takikh narushitelej zakona est "peschanye ljudi" - lovtsy, vooruzhennye samym moschnym oruzhiem i dostavljajuschie ikh v zavedenija dlja umerschvlenija. Geroj knigi, "pesochnyj chelovek" Logan, kotoromu ostalos neskolko dnej do unichtozhenija, reshaet razvenchat ili podtverdit gorodskuju legendu, govorjaschuju o zagadochnom ubezhische, gde lovkij beglets mozhet sprjatatsja ot lovtsov i ot pravitelstva.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction' Lauren Groff`Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling... Dive in for just a moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted' Celeste Ng It's been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on the canals.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel's name for the thing she feared most. And now that she's searching for her mother, she'll have to face it. In this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth, Daisy Johnson explores questions of fate and free will, gender fluidity, and fractured family relationships. Everything Under--a debut novel whose surreal, watery landscape will resonate with fans of Fen--is a daring, moving story that will leave you unsettled and unstrung.

But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger.