Salvage
  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552776257
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $19.99

Salvage

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1 Jul 2010
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15 Jul 2011
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A stunning novel from one of the UK's finest literary writers

It is the not too distant future. The Gulf Stream has ceased and the climate is plunged into turmoil. England has changed.

Civil Servant Quinn is dispatched to conduct an audit on a remote plot of land up North, designated for a brand new model town. But he swiftly realises how inflammatory his presence is when confronted by those on the sharp end of the new reality: Owen, a suicidal farmer whose livestock has been destroyed after a slew of viruses; Winston, a disillusioned journalist with a gallery of photos that show the truth about the site; and Pollard, the local man of God whose faith is up for sale.

But it is Anna, Quinn's sometime girlfriend, in charge of filling the dead cattle pits, who faces the deepest abyss of all. As the heavens open once again, the mountains of toxic soil that surround the site slowly begin to shift, and Quinn will face the ultimate test of his integrity.
  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552776257
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Robert Edric

Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (James Tait Black Prize winner 1986), A New Ice Age (runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize 1986), The Book of the Heathen (winner of the WH Smith LIterary Award 2000), Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002), Gathering the Water (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and In Zodiac Light (shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010). His most recent novel is Sanctuary. He lives in Yorkshire.

Also by Robert Edric

Mercury Falling
Field Service
Sanctuary
The Monster's Lament
The Devil's Beat
The London Satyr
In Zodiac Light
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Praise for Salvage

Black, gripping and superbly told

The Times

Edric's story grips the reader from the start

The Sunday Times

This is his 19th novel and - against some hot competition - one of his very best

Independent

Grips the breader from the start with the constant threat of imminent danger, though it is not a conventional thriller, mainly avoiding violence or melodrama and making the nightmare ordinary

John Spurling, The Sunday Times

A superb exploration of what could happen. Gripping from beginning to end

Bookbag.co.uk

A carefully thought-out picture of a bleak future that works as a critique of the present

Guardian

Once again, Edric shows himself to be one of Britain's finest storytellers

Good Book Guide