Set in the early nineteenth century, Pharos is a dazzling ghost story from an award-winning author. A young woman is washed up on the shores of Jacob's Rock, a remote lighthouse island off the coast of Scotland. She does not know who she is or how she got there. She has no memory. The keeper of the lighthouse and his assistant take her in and feed and clothe her. But this mysterious woman is not all that she seems, and neither is the remote and wind-swept island. Eerily reminiscent of Turn of the Screw and The Others, Pharos is a breathless tale of the supernatural.

Pharos: A Ghost Story

Literature & Fiction

Thompson, Alice

Contemporary

Thomas Dunne Books

When a strange woman appears on his doorstep near death, Dr. Noah Close nurses her back to life and eventually marries her, but a year later, her sudden disappearance launches the doctor on a quest to find her that leads him into her shadowy, uncertain past

Pandora's Box

Little,Brown & Co

Washing up on the shores of a remote Scottish lighthouse island, a young woman, possessing no memory of her identity, is taken in by the lighthouse keepers and discovers that she is not the only one with a mystery surrounding her life. Reprint.

Genre Fiction

Berkley Trade

When a strange woman appears on his doorstep near death, Dr. Noah Close nurses her back to life and eventually marries her, but a year later, her sudden disappearance launches the doctor on a quest to find her that leads him into her shadowy, uncertain past.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Ecco

When an art collector comes upon a portrait of an unforgettable woman, he finds himself searching all over London to locate her, but he soon discovers more than he had anticipated when his quest leads him to identical twins. Reprint.

Justine

British & Irish

Counterpoint

The Existential Detective

Salt Publishing

Literary

In Edwardian England, Violet has a fairy tale existence: loving husband, beautiful baby son and luxurious home. She wants for nothing. But soon after the birth of her baby the idyll begins to disintegrate. Violet becomes obsessed by a book of fairy tales her husband has locked away in a safe. Paranoid hallucinations begin to haunt her and she starts to question her sanity. Meanwhile, vulnerable young women are starting to disappear from the nearby asylum. Soon Violet herself is interned in the asylum for treatment only to discover, on coming out, that her husband has hired a nanny while she has been away, the beautiful, enigmatic Clara. The brutality of the asylum is nothing compared to the horrors that now lie in wait.

The Book Collector

Salt

Dr Noah Close opens his door one dark night to find a woman on fire on his doorstep. She is without name, voice or past. Noah rescues her, heals her broken, burned body and makes her his wife. He calls her Pandora. But was Pandora ever made to live quietly among men? Her disappearance, bloody and mysterious implicates Noah who finds himself on the run and on a journey that takes him far from his clinical, ordered life to a private eye named Venus. Through the hot, dry desert Venus leads him to the lush depravity of Las Vegas, where nothing is what it seems, most particularly Lazarus who presides darkly seductive over the casino. Convinced that Lazarus holds the truth about Pandora, Noah pursues shifting shapes and truths with a reckless passion that endangers all whom he catches up in his search. It is Noah's ultimate fate to be damned and saved by the same truth - He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. In combining allegory and odyssey in a dark, bewitching novel, Alice Thompson proves herself to be one of Britain's most exciting new talents.

Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)

Influenced by the Marquis de Sade's work of the same name, an award-winning Scottish writer follows one Englishman's nearly hallucinatory obsession with an obscure woman depicted in a painting, who seems to come to life as identical twins. IP.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Thompson, Alice. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Thompson, Alice

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Thompson, Alice. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Pharos: A Ghost Story

Pandora's Box

Pharos: A Ghost Story

Pandora's Box

Justine

The Existential Detective

Justine

The Book Collector

Pandora's Box

Justine