The Anniversary: An addictive and dangerously readable literary thriller, longli

Description: The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop With a stay-up-all-night plot, breathtaking prose, this is the story of a marriage and a death FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Stunning i paperDangerously readable ObserverElectrifying Sunday TimesNovelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., a revered film director and formerly her professor. J.Bs art has been forever overseen by him, now it may overshadow his.For days they sail in the sun, with nothing but dark water all around them. Then a storm hits, and Patrick falls off the ship.J.B. is left alone, as the search for what happened to Patrick - and the truth about their marriage - begins.Magnificent Joanna Cannon Compulsive Financial Times I loved it Megan Hunter Author Biography Stephanie Bishop is a widely acclaimed novelist and critic. She is the recipient of multiple prizes, including The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing, the Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards (shortlisted), the Christina Stead Prize for fiction (shortlisted) and the Stella Prize (longlisted). She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Review The Anniversary is a haunting mystery, sophisticated, subtle and subversive. Bishop considers the discipline, scrupulous and otherwise, required to make a marriage, as well as to make art, capturing the longing and the disappointment inherent in the attempt to make ones self known to others. -- Susanna Moore, author of IN THE CUTThe Anniversary is a disquieting, stunning book about marriage, art, power and creativity. -- Anna Bonet * THE I PAPER *As clever as it is delicious. A masterclass in layered sophistication . . . The Anniversary is a fully-realised literary achievement. From its sensuous sentences to its thrilling genre-craft to its timely cultural provocations. It is a book that could be read under a beach umbrella or in a university classroom -- 2024 Stella Prize JudgesThe Anniversary is a compulsive yet redemptive book layered with nuances that will have those new to Bishops work hunting out her backlist. -- Susie Mesure * FINANCIAL TIMES *In The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop expertly and mercilessly builds an atmosphere of intense uncertainty and threat. You wont want to put it down. -- Chris Power, author of MOTHERSDangerously readable . . . If only all literary novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature -- Alexander Larman * THE OBSERVER *Electrifying -- Claire Lowdon * SUNDAY TIMES *With a unique style and descriptions so real you can feel the salt-spray drift from the page, The Anniversary draws you in. Addictive and dynamic. -- Charlotte Roberts * HEAT MAGAZINE *The dread that slowly creeps into your bones while reading The Anniversary is difficult to shake off, yet you cannot look away. I revelled in every bit of this astute, compelling, psychological novel. -- Virginia Feito, author of MRS MARCHThe sense of foreboding increases as the narrative progresses and I found it impossible to put down. Its excellent on how a partners resentment can grow until it explodes as if from nowhere. Its also wonderful on writing itself and how our protagonists both enable and block each others process. I adored it. -- Sara Lawrence * DAILY MAIL *Nothing in this exquisitely twisted tale is quite what it seems. But though the cool, sharp, disenchanted narrator is not to be trusted, one thing about her is for real - her ability to say things so witty and so pungently true I kept turning down pages to mark them. If I kept a commonplace book I would have filled it with lines from this compelling novel about creativity and its discontents -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of THE PIKEI very much enjoyed The Anniversary. It put me in mind of Gone Girl and of Fleishman Is in Trouble too. It nails so much about how ruthless a writer of fiction needs to be both in relation to life and material -- Polly Samson, author of A THEATRE FOR DREAMERSSuch a stylish, incisive novel, tight with suspense and powerful insight. I loved it and will be recommending it far and wide -- Megan Hunter, author of THE END WE START FROMTense, elegant, sensuous. -- Niamh Campbell, author of WE WERE YOUNGExquisite, profound, and utterly exhilarating: The Anniversary is a stunning achievement. -- Mark Brandi, author of WIMMERAI absolutely loved THE ANNIVERSARY, with its very rare combination of elegance and tension. The dark yet subtle sense of foreboding draws you into the story so cleverly. Magnificent writing that is utterly compelling -- Joanna Cannon, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEPVery addictive and so smart - a fever dream about a writer getting everything they want and living out all their nightmares at the same time -- Rebecca May Johnson, author of SMALL FIRESI absolutely loved The Anniversary, a literary thriller that is simultaneously addictive, compelling, and deeply clever -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of EVERYONE IS STILL ALIVEStephanie Bishops The Anniversary is literature at its very, very best - her talent shimmers off every single page, her prose is exquisite and her observations about the complexities and competitiveness of intimate relationships, the chaos of the human condition and the inexorable tension between love, family, creativity and art-making are second to none. This novel is an absolute triumph in every respect -- Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of MY BODY KEEPS YOUR SECRETSCompelling and dark, a psychological thriller that makes you want to peel back the pages . . . The Anniversary lives up to the hype. For fans of Rachel Cusk and Siri Hustvedt * Books + Publishing *Stephanie Bishops novel The Anniversary is seductive, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent. Bishop peels back, with great insight and artistry, layer after layer of her characters psyche, laying bare the singular pleasures and secret resentments at the centre of any marriage, any life. This is a book to be savoured for its elegant sentences and psychological depth, but youll be hard-pressed not to devour it in a few voracious sittings. -- Sara Freeman, author of TIDESIt is intelligent and literary in the best sense of the word: fluent in style, self-aware in its deployment of genre... in the metaphysical reach of this book, the writer I kept thinking of was Iris Murdoch * Weekend Australian *Absolutely addictive. When reading The Anniversary, I found myself forgetting who I am or where I was. Only art that exudes brilliance can conjure this state -- Szilvia Molnar, author of THE NURSERYTense, elegant, sensuous -- Niamh Campbell, author of WE WERE YOUNGIn The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop expertly and mercilessly builds an atmosphere of intense uncertainty and threat. You wont want to put it down. -- Chris Power, author of MOTHERSThe dread that slowly creeps into your bones while reading The Anniversary is difficult to shake off, yet you cannot look away. I revelled in every bit of this astute, compelling, psychological novel. -- Virginia Feito, author of MRS MARCHExquisite, profound, and utterly exhilarating: The Anniversary is a stunning achievement. -- Mark Brandi, author of WIMMERA Details ISBN1474626157 Author Stephanie Bishop Publisher Orion Publishing Co Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781474626156 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-05-30 Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2024-05-30 NZ Release Date 2024-05-30 UK Release Date 2024-05-30 ISBN-10 1474626157 DEWEY 823.92 Audience General Pages 432 Subtitle An addictive and dangerously readable literary thriller, longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160112971;

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