Season of the Witch - Softcover

Mostert, Natasha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190996509X ISBN 13: 9781909965096

Publisher: Portable Magic Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

In her award-winning novel, Mostert blends alchemy, the art of memory, high magic and murder to create a highly original psychological thriller. Gabriel Blackstone is a cool, hip, thoroughly twenty-first century Londoner with an unusual talent. A computer hacker by trade, he is also a remote viewer: able to ‘slam a ride’ through the minds of others. But he uses his gift only reluctantly -- until he is contacted by an ex-lover who begs him to find her step-son, last seen months earlier in the company of two sisters. And so Gabriel visits Monk House, a place where time seems to stand still, and where the rooms are dominated by the coded symbol of a cross and circle. As winter closes in, Gabriel becomes increasingly bewitched by the house, and by its owners, the beautiful and mysterious Monk sisters. But even as he falls in love, he knows that one of them is a killer. But which one? And what is the secret they are so determined to protect?

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About the Author

Natasha Mostert is a South African novelist and screenwriter. She grew up in Johannesburg but currently lives in London, UK. Her fourth novel, SEASON OF THE WITCH, won the 2009 World Book Day: Book to Talk About Award. 
Future goals include writing poetry, executing a perfect spinning crescent kick and coming face to face with the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. Aside from writing, Mostert is an avid kickboxer. Visit her website at natashamostert.com to find out more about her involvement with the CPAU Fight for Peace project, which teaches Afghan women how to box and feel empowered in their lives. Educated in South Africa and at Columbia University, New York, Mostert majored in modern languages and holds graduate degrees in Lexicography and Applied Linguistics. She has worked as a teacher in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at WITS University, Johannesburg and as project coordinator in the publishing department of public television station WNET/Channel Thirteen, New York. Her political opinion pieces have appeared on the op-ed page of The New York Times, and in Newsweek, The Independent and The Times (London).

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. This spellbinding tale of magic and seduction from Mostert (Windwalker) shows that the unfettered pursuit of arcane enlightenment can sometimes come at too high a price. William Whittington, a terminally ill London investment banker, hires Gabriel Blackstone, a rakish "information broker," to find Robert, his missing 21-year-old son. Whittington's wife, who happens to be Blackstone's ex-girlfriend, knows Blackstone once belonged to an organization, Eyestorm, that used psychic methods to find missing objects and persons. When Blackstone draws on his remote viewing powers ("slamming the ride"), he discovers that Robert was murdered by one of two sisters—raven-haired Morrighan or flame-haired Minnaloushe Monk, direct descendants of Elizabethan occultist John Dee, who dabble in alchemy and the "Art of Memory." As Blackstone woos the suspects to discover which one is guilty, he falls desperately in love. Mostert, a South African writer now living in London, has produced a feverish tale that's goth SF at its finest. (Apr.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Portable Magic Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 190996509X
• ISBN 13: 9781909965096
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 446