Waking up on a cold winter's morning, after a snowfall, and the streets are eerily quiet. Snowfall always seems to create an uneasy, sometimes sombre atmosphere, invading our structured world and our cosy existence. White snowy panoramic pictures have been used to great effect in the past in such b...
The Silent Land is my first experience with Graham Joyce. Gregor Xane told me to read this book with my face, so when I found it at my local UBS, I snatched it up with extreme prejudice. That doesn't make any sense, does it? Oh well... First and foremost, I must comment on how gorgeous the American ...
A beautiful love story and meditation on life and death, made all the more heartbreaking and poignant by the passing of the author last year. A wonderful novel from a talent that will be sorely missed.
youngish married couple go on a ski trip. avalanche! when they extricate themselves from the snow they find that everyone at their ski village has disappeared and that time now moves differently. what the hell?fortunately, guessing the (entirely predictable) twists that come at the halfway and end p...
Terrible terrible book. A couple on their holiday retreat gets caught in an avalanche while skiing which they survive. When they return to their hotel, it’s deserted. The whole village is empty. They are alone. After some failed attempts to contact the outside world and some tries to get out by a ca...
On the cover it says "Brave and heartbreaking", "Stark, layered and ominous" , "A new classic"....are you rolling your eyes? I did. I am not sure how I ended up with this book...But I can say honestly it was a great read. IT IS stark, layered and ominous.For the first time in a long time I got the f...
Completely re-writing this review as I've had some more time to let it sink in and I'm not suffering from insomnia at present.The Silent Land gets a straight up three for the premise and the premise alone.Having thought about it, this would have been much better served as a short story. As it was th...
True silence. The freezing of all sounds. It wasn’t possible in the modern world, to listen to the sound of true silence. Perhaps not even in the ancient world, either: there was wind in the desert; insects in the depths of the forest; wave activity in the middle of the ocean. Nature did not tolerat...
Wow. This book is just amazeballs. Also, don't spoil yourself before reading it. Just don't. I wasn't quite sure how to classify this book. I can totally believe that this book would be nominated for awards, but I'm not sure how it didn't win... then again, I haven't read the winners.This is a d...
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