Beyond Black Book

An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England - "Beyond Black" is the new novel from the critically acclaimed author of "Giving Up the Ghost". Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her and she talks back. With her flat-eyed flint-hearted sidekick Colette she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.' Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. She knows that the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients. Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless addled mother Emmie. They infiltrate her house her body and her soul; the more she tries to be rid of them the stronger and nastier they become.This tenth novel by Hilary Mantel the critically acclaimed author of "Giving Up the Ghost" is a witty and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and dark forces set in an England that jumps at its own shadow a country whose banal self-absorption is shot through by fear of the engulfing dark.

A comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past, who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists... Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Hilary Mantel's supremely suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour and even darker secrets.

A comic yet sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'A Place of Greater Safety'.