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The Couple in the Cabin [Audiobook]

Daniel Hurst

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They’ll do anything to get out. She’ll do anything to keep them in. When happily married...

Gardeners' World - 101 Grow to Eat Ideas: Planting Recipes That Taste as Good as They Look

Ceri Thomas

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There's nothing better than the taste of home-grown fruit and veg. It has flavour and freshness that...

Growing Herbs

Richard Bird

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This is a directory of varieties and how to cultivate them successfully. It is an illustrated...

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Cunning Folk in Books

Oct 19, 2021

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Cunning Folk
By Adam Nevill

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A compelling folk horror story of deadly rivalry and the oldest magic from the four times winner of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.

No home is heaven with hell next door.

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. His wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea. Not least because the previous owner committed suicide. Though no one can explain why.

Within days of crossing the threshold, when hostilities break out with the elderly couple next door, Tom's dreams of future contentment are threatened by an escalating tit-for-tat campaign of petty damage and disruption.

Increasingly isolated and tormented, Tom risks losing his home, everyone dear to him and his mind. Because, surely, only the mad would suspect that the oddballs across the hedgerow command unearthly powers. A malicious magic even older than the eerie wood and the strange barrow therein. A hallowed realm from where, he suspects, his neighbours draw a hideous power.

Brilliant!!!! You certainly don’t know who lives next door and who you’re pissing off with a chainsaw! Just brilliant then again I didn’t expect anything less from Adam his books are just the highlight of the year. He’s taken annoying neighbours to a whole new level. I tried so many times to slow myself down but it just wasn’t happening I needed to keep reading. I know I’m going to have a book depression waiting to see what he comes up with next.