Named as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by The Guardian. From the award-winning author of The Rift, Nina Allan, The Silver Wind is a remarkable narrative exploring the nature of time itself.
Martin Newland is fascinated by time. Watches and clocks are for him metaphorical time machines, a means of coming to terms with the past and voyaging into the future. But was his first timepiece a Smith, given to him on his fourteenth birthday, or the Longines he received four years later? Was it the small brass travelling clock unearthed in the run-down house for which he is to act as estate agent? And who is the maker of these time machines?
Nina Allan has won the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the prestigious Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and the Aeon Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award.
Show moreNamed as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by The Guardian. From the award-winning author of The Rift, Nina Allan, The Silver Wind is a remarkable narrative exploring the nature of time itself.
Martin Newland is fascinated by time. Watches and clocks are for him metaphorical time machines, a means of coming to terms with the past and voyaging into the future. But was his first timepiece a Smith, given to him on his fourteenth birthday, or the Longines he received four years later? Was it the small brass travelling clock unearthed in the run-down house for which he is to act as estate agent? And who is the maker of these time machines?
Nina Allan has won the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the prestigious Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and the Aeon Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award.
Show moreNina Allan has won the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the prestigious Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and the Aeon Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award.
"A twisting, haunting work of speculative fantasy, pulsing with the
dull ache of a fading dream and intoxicating its audience with
disorienting what-ifs.... Working through the eerie and
mysterious locations of Nina Allan’s book requires concentration,
imagination, and an eye for detail, but all are rewarded. This
funky trek through time should not be missed." --Foreword
Review
"Allan’s prose is consistently ultra-lucid; unsentimental yet
capable of evoking deep emotions; and simultaneously full of
gravitas and the quotidian muck and mire of life. The characters in
all their permutations are totally believable, and a sense of
life’s multifarious possibilities—traps and evasions—radiates off
them. Of course, the very architecture of the book brilliantly
embodies and reflects the physics and metaphysics of her conception
of time as well. Readers who cherish Wolfe’s The Fifth
Head of Cerberus for its insidiously thrilling mind games now
finally have a volume to stand proudly alongside that classic." -
Locus
"uncanny, strange, gripping" - BookRiot
“A thoroughly thought-provoking déjà vu experience” - BookRiot
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