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Candlenight - Phil Rickman

Description: ISBN 0330325205 / Genre: Horror / Giles Freeman is delighted when his wife Claire inherits an old cottage in a remote village in Wales. Y ... more

Candlenight - Phil Rickman ... Groves is small, friendly and very alluring - the perfect escape from London. But American reporter Berry Morelli tries to talk Giles out of moving, believing something is very wrong.

Newest Review: ... this book is excellent, moving you along quickly, and when I got to the last few chapters I couldn't put it down and had ... more

... to read it to the finish. The setting is rural Wales pre-devolution, there is some bad feeling towards the English, as the Welsh feel that they are buying up their homes as holiday cottages, leaving nowhere for young welsh families to live. This dislike of the English is part of the menacing atmosphere, but there is something much more sinister about Y Groes in particular. The action is set around a by-election, which bring the journalist friends of Giles to the area. We also follow the fortunes of Guto Evans who is ...more

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Candlenight - Phil Rickman: Dim Sais! (629 words)
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Giles Freeman is a journalist, his wife Claire a freelance photographer . Claires grandfather Judge Rhys dies and leaves his cottage in rural Wales to her, both she and Giles are captivated by the beautiful village of Y Groes and decide to move in. From the very beginning of the book there are warnings that there is something sinister about the village and its inhabitants. Berry Morelli an American journalist friend of Giles, goes with him to look at the cottage, already wary of the place after being warned, Berry feels a sense of evil in the cottage, but he can see that Giles is smitten and will not be dissuaded from moving in. I will not reveal any ... Read the complete review