Night Side of the River
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  • Published: 3 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781787334182
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99

Night Side of the River

Dazzling new ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestseller

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3 Oct 2023
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5 Oct 2023
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5 Oct 2023
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5 Nov 2023
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The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson

A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.

The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson

'Always passionate and provocative'
NEW STATESMAN

'One of the wittiest writers around today'
NATASHA PULLEY, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.

We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.

We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.

To live amongst us.

To remind us.

To tempt us.

To take their revenge.

These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.
  • Published: 3 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781787334182
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn’t work out.

Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.

She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

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Praise for Night Side of the River

I loved Night Side of the River. Jeanette Winterson is one of the wittiest writers around today… I can't think of any other writer who can treat death and horror with such lightheartedness and pragmatic cheerfulness but without losing the cold-yet-cosy frisson that comes with all the best ghost stories. MR James would be very happy!

Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Spine-chillingly good

i

In these enjoyable tales Winterson has ably served the genre, while also sketching some unsettling future directions the ghost story might take

Literary Review

Winterson is so bright, original, playful, subversive, with a sly talent for making the flesh creep

Saga

This collection is as hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty and thought-provoking

UK Press Syndication

Thought-provoking... A captivating and chilling collection examining grief, revenge and how technology can breach the boundary between life and death

Sunday Express

A thought-provoking collection of short stories… The theme that runs through all the stories is loss and how it haunts the living

Daily Mirror

Memorable… These supernatural tales are satisfyingly disconcerting

Publishers Weekly

A collection of ghost stories that range from campfire-level spooks to speculative reflections on the meaning of life.. As challenging and entertaining as anything undertaken by this endlessly ingenious writer

Los Angeles Times

Jeanette Winterson brings the classic gothic literature theme into the 21st century by imagining what happens when the undead have to find modern ways to reach out to us... This collection is as hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty and thought-provoking

Independent

At the height of spooky season, turn off the lights and immerse yourself in the spine-tingling delights of this frighteningly modern ghost story collection. Blurring the lines between nonfiction and campfire tale, this one imagines what would happen if there really was a ghost in the machine

Good Housekeeping

Winterson the artist at her most potent, melding the viscerally real with the lavishly supernatural

Guardian

In the stories Winterson is at her best, unsurprisingly, when doing new things with the form

The Times