Jon McGregor
1) Reservoir 13
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In midwinter in an English village, a teenage girl has gone missing and everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks, and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search...
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The Reservoir Tapes take us deep into the heart of an English village that is trying to come to terms with what has happened on its watch.A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer arrives, intent on capturing the community's unstable stories about life in the weeks and months before Becky Shaw vanished.Each villager has a memory to share or a secret to conceal, a connection...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert "Doc" Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world."--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on-victims of heroin addiction. Hidden in the shadows they keep vigil as the hours pass, paying homage to a friend whose body is taken away. Piece by broken piece, their stories are laid out-lives fallen through the cracks, hopes fl aring and dying, love overwhelmed by a stronger need, and the havoc wrought by drugs, distress, and the disregard of the wider world.