A01=Elaine Thomson
andrew michael hurley
Author_Elaine Thomson
books set in Scotland
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catriona ward
celtic
dark matter
elizabeth macneal
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ghost stories
ghost story novels
halloween
haunted house
haunting of hill house
kiran millwood hargrave
michelle paver
outlander
rainforest
samhain
sarah waters
shirley jackson
spooky books
stacey halls
the haunting season
the little stranger
the winter spirits
the witching hour
turn of the screw
Product details
- ISBN 9781408724637
- Weight: 421g
- Dimensions: 138 x 218mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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For fans of Michelle Paver and Sarah Waters, the first in a haunting quartet of ghost stories set in the wilds of Scotland. 'I was so impressed by Hawthorn' MICHELLE PAVER, author of Dark Matter'Delightfully brooding and gloriously gothic, Hawthorn sucked me in like the deepest bog, refusing to let me go' CJ COOKE, author of The Book of Witching 'Reminded me of The Little Stranger . . . a hugely entertaining and evocative treat' BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding'A new classic' SARA SHERIDAN, author of The Fair Botanists'The best Scottish ghost story of the 21st century so far' THE HERALD_________Caithness, October 1871.The Ordnance Survey are charting Scotland's most remote north-easterly county, a bleak landscape of endless moorland and lonely crofts. When a strange vision leads cartographer Robert Sutherland out onto the moor, an accident leaves him inches from death. He is taken to Leask House, to recuperate under the care of Mrs Sinclair and her beautiful daughter Isabel. At first, Robert thinks the dreadful visions that plague him at Leask House are the result of the laudanum he has been prescribed. But as events take ever stranger and more terrifying turns, Robert begins to wonder whether his presence at Leask House is really a coincidence at all. Someone - or something - has summoned him here. And they don't intend for him to leave.
Elaine Thomson is a Scottish author, who has written several historical novels under the name E. S. Thomson. Her work has been longlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger, and shortlisted for the Saltire Prize, the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award and the William McIlvanney Crime Book of the Year Award. Hawthorn is the first in a planned quartet of ghost stories, all set in Scotland during the four 'turning points' of the year: Samhain, midwinter, midsummer and the spring equinox.
Elaine has a PhD in the social history of medicine, and works as a university lecturer by day, and writes by night. She lives in Edinburgh with her two sons.
