Edward Hogan

When Daniel Lever is dragged to Leisure World Holiday Complex for some "time away" with his depressed dad, his expectations are low. Daniel is overweight, he hates sport, and his father has brought along his beloved tomato plant. But soon Daniel spots a girl swimming in the fake lake. Lexi is elegant and smart, but very mysterious. Why are her bruises getting worse each time she and Daniel meet? And is her watch really ticking backwards? A dark figure stalks the pair, and as British summer time approaches, Daniel has to act quickly. Their souls depend on it.

Daylight Saving

The messengers

«Una vertiginosa y apasionante novela de suspense.» welovethisbook.com Desde que sus padres se separaron, hace unos meses, Daniel vive con su padre, y las cosas entre ellos no van muy bien. Para recuperar la relación con su hijo, organiza unas vacaciones con él en el complejo deportivo Mundo Ocio, ¡una auténtica pesadilla para Daniel, que odia el ejercicio y tampoco es especialmente sociable! Allí, Daniel conocerá a Lexi, una misteriosa chica que suele nadar en el lago, siempre alejada de los demás. Ambos conectan de una forma muy especial, pero Daniel nota cada vez más cosas extrañas en ella: tiene unas heridas en los brazos que intenta ocultar y que van empeorando cada día, siempre evita hablar de su pasado cuando Daniel le pregunta algo y los números de su reloj en vez de avanzar, retroceden. La historia se irá tornando cada vez más misteriosa y amenazante... y cuando se acerca el final del verano, Daniel deberá actuar rápidamente para intentar salvar a Lexi de su propio pasado.

La noche que nunca acaba

During a forced vacation with his father at Leisure World, Daniel befriends Lexi, a strange girl surrounded by dark secrets, with injuries that seem to get worse instead of better, a watch that runs backwards, and a dark figure stalking her--and Daniel.

Wanneer Daniel Lever naar vakantiepark Leisure World wordt gesleept door zijn depressieve vader, heeft hij totaal geen verwachtingen. Daniel is te dik, haat sport en zijn vader toont meer liefde voor zijn tomatenplant dan voor zijn zoon. Maar dan spot Daniel een meisje in het meer bij het vakantiepark, Lexi. Lexi is elegant en slim, maar erg mysterieus. Waarom worden haar wonden erger elke keer als Daniel haar ziet? En tikken de wijzers op haar horloge echt achteruit? Een duister figuur stalkt het tweetal, en nu de Britse zomertijd eraan komt, moeten de twee snel handelen. Hun zielen staan op het spel.

Het uur van de waarheid

Beth is an albino, half blind, and given to looking at the world out of the corner of her eye. Her neighbours in the Derbyshire town of Blackmoor have always thought she was 'touched', and when a series of bizarre happenings shake the very foundations of the village, they are confirmed in their opinion that Beth is an ill omen. The neighbours say that Beth eats dirt from the flowerbeds, and that smoke rises from her lawn. By the end of the year, she is dead. A decade later her son, Vincent, treated like a bad omen by his father George is living in a pleasant suburb miles from Blackmoor. There the bird-watching teenager stumbles towards the buried secrets of his mother's life and death in the abandoned village. It's the story of a community that fell apart, a young woman whose face didn't fit, and a past that refuses to go away.

Blackmoor

Sent to stay with her aunt to escape difficulties at home, 15-year-old Frances meets the otherworldly Peter, a messenger who brings unwelcome news and believes that Frances is also a messenger. By the author of Daylight Saving.

The Messengers

If you could see the future, would you have the guts to change it? A new psychological thriller from the author of Daylight Saving. Fifteen-year-old Frances is sent to her aunt’s house for the summer to escape difficulties at home. Soon she meets Peter, a man unlike anyone she has ever known. Peter is a messenger—but his messages never bring good news. Peter believes that Frances is a messenger, too. In a compelling page-turner as complex as it is chilling, the author of Daylight Saving poses the provocative question: If you could change the future, where would you start?

After the sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a rambling Derbyshire parkland, three people are left to mourn him in very different ways. David's young widow, Maggie, struggles with her grief and isolation, the prejudices of suspicious locals, and the threats to the park. Louisa, who lives in the grounds and has harboured an infatuation -- not to mention a dark secret -- with David since her youth, only wants to be left alone with the falcons to whom she has devoted her life, despite Maggie's persistent attempts to forge a friendship. Meanwhile, Christopher, David's eccentric teenage son from an earlier marriage, is attempting to balance his own grief with a yearning for life beyond the estate, and a quest to trace his estranged mother. In the aftermath of disaster, the various allegiances of this makeshift family will be stretched to breaking point, and Maggie, Louisa and Christopher must each face the decisions which will define them…

The Hunger Trace

'A writer of great energy and fearsome powers of observation' Hilary Mantel, TLS Brighton, 1950s. When Daisy got married, she knew nothing of a police wife's struggles - the way secrecy and suspicion seep into the home. But over the years she finds ways to resist. She builds a fierce bond with her children, Linda and Michael, and escapes to the twilit world of the cinema. By 1998 Linda and Michael are still struggling to cope after their mother's death, a decade before. Mike finds solace in suburban violence, while Linda invests her hopes in Lucas, her deaf teenage son. But the appearance of a man from Daisy's past threatens to upend their uneasy peace. Meanwhile, Lucas is obsessed with his support worker, and relearning the sign language he shared with his grandmother. As the language comes back, so do memories of his early childhood. But will the truth about the events of ten years ago save his family, or destroy it? The Electric is a brilliantly realised novel about three generations bound together by love, tragedy and the struggle to escape the past.

Edward Hogan

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