The story is told in first-person chapters alternating between Mark and Stephanie, allowing the authors to play with narrator reliability and to examine the fracture lines in the husband and wife relationship. The apartment turns out to be not quite the chic pad they’d hoped for – it’s more of a squat in a decrepit building inhabited by one other resident, a mad artist. In The Apartment (Pan, £7.99), SL Grey – the pseudonym of Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg – sets up an interesting premise and introduces, little by little, elements of inevitable horror. She lives in London.After suffering a break-in at their Cape Town apartment, Mark and Stephanie decide to house-swap with a couple in Paris as a way of getting away from it all and, in Mark’s case, fleeing the horrors of his past.
Most of her books are under option for film/TV.Ĭatherine currently works as a theatre lighting designer and is a fan of big cities, urban magic, Thai food and graffiti-spotting. Since then, a linked series of novellas, Gameshouse, and the novel The Pursuit of William Abbey, have been published. Her book 84k got a special citation in the Philip K Dick Awards 2019). Her recent novel The End of the Day was shortlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. The follow-up Touch was described by the Independent as ‘little short of a masterpiece’, and her next novel The Sudden Appearance of Hope won the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her first book published under the Claire North pen name was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, which became a word-of-mouth bestseller and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. They revolve around the concept that the pulse, the rhythm and the heartbeat of the city and the millions of people living within it becomes a palpable form of magic itself.Ĭatherine also publishes under the pseudonym Claire North. Dubbed the Matthew Swift and Magicals Anonymous novels, these books are set in an alternate modern-day London saturated with magic. Under the open pseudonym Kate Griffin, she has also since published a further six fantasy novels for adults.
The book was published in 2002 and garnered comparisons with Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman.Ĭatherine went on to publish a further seven young adult novels under her own name, earning her extensive critical acclaim and two Carnegie nominations for her novels Timekeepers and The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle. Catherine’s first novel, Mirror Dreams, was completed when she was 14 years old.
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