Bauer’s debut, BLACKLANDS, is the story of a young boy who enters into a dangerous correspondence with a serial killer. The same boy appears in DARKSIDE, but here the main character is a young policeman struggling with personal and professional pressures. Both are set in the isolated English village of Shipcott. Atmospheric, suspenseful, memorable.
The acclaimed novelist tells his disturbing family story: after their parents’ divorce, he and his siblings lived in poverty. Enraged and easily provoked, Dubus became an aggressive fighter; eventually he found redemption through writing. This is a powerful, sorrowful story.
Teenaged Margo flees her toxic family and undertakes a river journey in this darkly powerful novel. She’s a wildly original heroine determined to live on her own terms.
