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The Quarantined City Paperback – July 5, 2016

by James Everington (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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The Quarantined City: sealed off from the outside world, with only the sight of the ocean to remind its inhabitants of life beyond. No one knows why the city has been quarantined and conspiracy theories abound.

But for Fellows life continues largely as before. He walks the streets, hunts out rare books; the sun continues to shine and the gulls circle above.

There’s the small matter of the ghost haunting his house, but Fellows doesn’t let himself think of that.

But when he tracks down a story by the reclusive writer known as Boursier, his old certainties fade as he becomes aware that the secrets of the city, the ghostly child, and the quarantine itself, might be more connected than he thinks...


“There is an edge of Murakami here, we are in a world just slightly skewed from our own but all the more foreign for that. Everington has a crystal clear prose style, reminiscent of JG Ballard but, like China Miéville, twisted toward the gothic...” Damien G Walter

“Good writing gives off fumes, the sort that induce dark visions, and Everington’s elegant, sophisticated prose is a potent brew. Imbibe at your own risk.” Robert Dunbar, author of The Pines and Martyrs & Monsters

“Everington is excellent at evoking a mounting sense of unease, turning to dread, that close, oppressive feeling when everything is still and ordinary, but the whole world is filled with the sense that something huge and terrible is just about to happen.” Iain Rowan, author of One Of Us and Nowhere To Go
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    July 5, 2016
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    5.25 x 0.61 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1533255660
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1533255662
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 5, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1533255660
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1533255662
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.61 x 8 inches
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    4.0 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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"The triumph of Everington’s first novel is that, while hinting at lofty literary precedents, it cumulatively takes on an unsettling voice all of its own." The Guardian

I'm a writer of horror and strange stories from Nottingham, England. I enjoy the unexplained, the psychological, and the ambiguous in my weird fiction, and this is the kind of story I try and write. My main influences are writers like Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson, and Robert Aickman.

My latest collection of stories, 'Falling Over', is out now from Infinity Plus, as is the episodic novel 'The Quarantined City' which was recently reviewed in The Guardian.

My first book as editor, 'The Hyde Hotel' was released in 2016.

I drink Guinness, if anyone's offering.

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  • geodoc
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and atmospheric
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2016
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    There's a lot to like about this story. It's a kind of self-aware fantasy-cum-magical realist psychological mystery fix-up novel with some supernatural (or are they?) elements thrown in. It's well written, immersive and has some delightfully unexpected turns and creepy flights of fancy. The constant 'what's real and what's not' question is a twisting thread that draws the otherwise disparate elements together. This, together with the evocative descriptions of an unnamed, indeterminately old-fashioned and 'foreign' city existing in a weird state of lock down ultimately succeeded in drawing me in completely. If it doesn't feel completely original, the echoes I got were good ones, for example China Mieville's 'The City and the City' and even (and this is about the best compliment I can pay any book in the multiple blurred genre lines genre) Iain Banks' 'The Bridge'.

    That said, there was a point a chapter or so in where I was struggling to continue. The main gripes: some clunky characterisation and dialogue, some awkward stylistic tics -such as overuse of parentheses and ellipses - and one or two apparent word substitution errors (I guess these are the typos of the spellchecker era). And it didn't help that I thought I'd already worked out the identity of the mystery writer character.

    I suspect that if the author had been better established and the novel had been through the editing machine of a mainstream publisher many of these glitches would have been ironed out, but it was off-putting to come across them early in the novel before I'd got fully engaged in the story and better disposed towards this kind of stuff.

    Early on, I was also wary that everything was a little too self-referential. A first novel featuring a wannabe writer who has had a few short stories published in various little-read magazines, partly composed of short stories. Reading the author's bio, this seems a bit too convenient. But I'm glad I pushed on, as amongst other things, this is a novel about writing, and it actually ends up examining the process and power of writing in a refreshing and atmospheric way. And it doesn't matter if you guess who Boursier is. It's the how and the why that are important.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great spooky tone. Clumsy delivery of hints.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2016
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    Great tone. Lovely sense of confusion. The whole book is drowning in denial and terror.

    My only complaint is that he reveals the source or the mystery too obviously early on. Earlier in the book he drops a few hints that, while they don't spoil the story, are still a bit heavy-handed. "This is the main topic of the mystery! Focus all your attention on this!"
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  • onasteamer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Woozy and wonderful
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2016
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    A woozy, psychological puzzle that reminds me of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy (especially as it deals with writing and writers), or Borges, except it’s heartbreaking, too. The prose is fantastic – clear and sharp, but with unexpected flights of imagination. It’s a wonderful book.
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