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  • Grievance
    Ian Ashcroft
    Elder Cove lies in a fold of the old mountains, under a peak that breathes a blue smoke down the hollows at dusk. The people who were here before the settlers knew to keep off it. The settlers cleared and planted right up under it, and raised their children in its shadow, and have been paying for it ever since - a child a year, taken from beyond the low fences when the smoke co...
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  • The Men Who Walked In
    Ian Ashcroft
    1961. Elliot Mercer is twenty-three, wealthy, and certain he is about to matter. He travels a tidal black river into the last blank space on the map, to document a people the outside world has never touched - and he records everything: the journal, the camera, the smell of the water, the sound of a country that never falls silent.The record is all that comes back.At first it is...
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  • The Weight Of Breath
    Ian Ashcroft
    For thirty-five years, New Mars has held. Beneath its great domes the rain falls at seven, the printed food is warm, and a generation has been born who has never seen Earth and does not miss it. Tomas Merrow keeps the atmosphere plant - the single closed loop the whole city breathes through - and one ordinary morning he notices a reading he cannot quite explain away.He is the o...
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  • The Last Hunt
    Ian Ashcroft
    The winter comes down harder than anyone living has known it, and at first the wrongness is small enough to explain away. A wood gone too quiet. A sound in the night with no source. A footprint in fresh snow that no walking thing could have left.Ai’s people know their world the way a hand knows its own fingers - the mammoth and the cave lion, the migrations, the killing cold. T...
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  • Out Of Season
    Ian Ashcroft
    Sixty-one, and certain of his hands, he has hunted the width of the world. He asks to be set down alone in a valley the maps have forgotten - a week in the last of the good weather, one tag, one great bull, and a bare place on a wall at home waiting to be filled.The snow comes early. The small life of the country goes quiet, and then goes altogether, until there is nothing left...
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  • The Long Mourning
    Ian Ashcroft
    In an England of gaslight and fog, the knights of the Order of Saint Veyr do not sicken and do not age. Each keeps the same small ritual - a physic taken at dawn, a finger of something colourless let down into a glass of water - and each has learned the one art the long life requires: not to ask what he is drinking.Sir Alistair Vale has kept that silence for a lifetime. Then th...
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  • Coals At The Treeline
    Ian Ashcroft
    The winter has gone on too long. The herds have thinned to rumour, the drying-frames stand bare, and the ring of lodges pulls a little tighter each night around the one fire that is never allowed to die. Orn is young enough to still be sent out into the dark for water and fuel, and old enough to feel the cold reaching for the soft places behind the eyes.Then the taking begins -...
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  • The Last Good Evening
    Ian Ashcroft
    The heat has not broken in weeks. On the field at the edge of town a travelling fair has risen overnight - the calliope turning, the big wheel strung with lights, diesel and burnt sugar on the warm dark air. Eleanor Vale, fifty-three, comes to it alone, and comes happy.Then her little girl is gone.As Eleanor hunts through the emptying fairground, the night begins, very quietly,...
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  • The Last Voyage of the EMpress of Smoke
    Ian Ashcroft
    Some passengers were never meant to arrive.The Empress of Smoke is the greatest of the steam leviathans, a floating city crossing an ocean that may not be an ocean, powered by engines no passenger is permitted to understand. Elias Vale boards her young and grieving, looking for work and a way to outrun his losses. On the first evening he meets Clara-elegant, cool-handed, strang...
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  • The Unbecoming of Agnes Dun
    Ian Ashcroft
    1670s Scotland. In a remote parish schooled in the finding of witches, Agnes Dun has committed the one unforgivable sin: she was never chosen. Unmarried, unclaimed, a house no one enters - until a warmth comes to her in the dark that asks nothing, and stays.What follows is not a haunting but a gestation. The parish begins to slip out of time: the dead are grieved before they di...
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  • The Memory Coast
    Ian Ashcroft
    Ella and June have been together fifteen years, long enough to have stopped holding hands - to reach for a sleeve instead, a smaller and surer claim. They come to the village for rest: a painted town above a cold sea, where the snow never quite melts and orange leaves lie sealed under ice along the harbor wall. There are no clocks here. There are notebooks everywhere, and one r...
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  • Marrow
    Ian Ashcroft
    Autumn, 1947. A detective drives up into the mountains to a coal town called Marrow, to reopen the coldest case in the county: a school bus that vanished twenty-two years ago on a quarter-mile of open road-sixteen children and their driver, gone, with no wreck, no bodies, and no explanation anyone has ever been able to give.The town receives him kindly. Too kindly. The bell abo...
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  • Mereward
    Ian Ashcroft
    London, 1920. A newspaper columnist meets a woman twice - a bakery, a queue, the smell of flour, two pennies pushed back across the counter. Nothing is spoken. Nothing is promised. Then she is dead, and the small ordinary warmth of her becomes the one thing he cannot put down.Unable to write a word, he takes a room at Mereward - a beautiful, failing house in the west country th...
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  • The Uncorrected
    Ian Ashcroft
    Mara Voss finishes dead men’s books. A ghostwriter of fifteen years, solitary by design, she comes to the remote Appalachian town of Ledger to complete the unfinished testament of a prophet no one will quite explain - and finds a place that buries its old and never, in a hundred and thirty years, its young.The town keeps a ledger. It has kept one for generations. And what it re...
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    18,55 €

  • The Keeping
    Ian Ashcroft
    Alaska, 1940. Vivian Marsh restores broken furniture; she reads made things the way other people read faces, and she has loved Josephine Ryder for six years without once managing to say so. When the two women take Winterhail - a great grey house nine days’ hire, remote past the last town with a lamp - Vivian carries her grandmother’s ring stitched into her coat and a proposal s...
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    24,68 €