Glass Town. First Printing. Signed by Author

Savile, Steven

ISBN 10: 1250077834 / ISBN 13: 9781250077837

Published by New York. St. Martin's Press, 2017

About this Item

New York. St. Martin's Press. 2017. First Edition/First Printing. (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Pale blue boards with gilt spine titles. Hint of softening at spine head but otherwise fine. Prelims with grey pages and white titles. Signed to the recto of the copyright page by the author in silver pen. Cover artwork by Erwin Serrano. Dust wrapper is without wear, unclipped and as new. "In 1924, two brothers both loved Eleanor Raines, a promising young actress from the East End of London. She disappeared during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's debut, Number 13, which itself is now lost. It was the crime of the age, capturing the imagination of the city: the beautiful actress never seen again, and the gangster who disappeared the same day". Seller Inventory # JAN23.22001

Bibliographic Details

Title: Glass Town. First Printing. Signed by Author

Publisher: New York. St. Martin's Press

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Steven Savile is an international sensation, selling over half a million copies of his novels worldwide and writing for cult favorite television shows including Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Stargate. Now, he is finally making his US debut with Glass Town, a brilliantly composed novel revolving around the magic and mystery lurking in London.

There's always been magic in our world
We just needed to know where to look for it

In 1924, two brothers both loved Eleanor Raines, a promising young actress from the East End of London. She disappeared during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s debut, Number 13, which itself is now lost. It was the crime of the age, capturing the imagination of the city: the beautiful actress never seen again, and the gangster who disappeared the same day.

Generations have passed. Everyone involved is long dead. But even now their dark, twisted secret threatens to tear the city apart.

Joshua Raines is about to enter a world of macabre beauty, of glittering celluloid and the silver screen, of illusion and deception, of impossibly old gangsters and the fiendish creatures they command, and most frighteningly of all, of genuine magic.

He is about to enter Glass Town.

The generations-old obsession with Eleanor Raines’s unsolved case is about to become his obsession, handed down father-to-son through his bloodline like some unwanted inheritance. But first he needs to bury his grandfather and absorb the implications of the confession in his hand, a letter from one of the brothers, Isaiah, claiming to have seen the missing actress. The woman in the red dress hadn’t aged a day, no matter that it was 1994 and she’d been gone seventy years.

Long buried secrets cannot stay secrets forever. Hidden places cannot stay hidden forever.

The magic that destroyed one of the most brutal families in London’s dark history is finally failing, and Joshua Raines is about to discover that everything he dared dream of, everything he has ever feared, is waiting for him in Glass Town.

About the Author:

Steven Savile has twice been nominated for the British Fantasy Society Award for best short story and best original fiction collection, and was runner up in 2000 for his editorial work on Redbrick Eden, Scaremongers 2, which raised funds for the homeless charity SHELTER in the UK. He is the author of Glass Town and Silver, and lives in Stockholm, Sweden, where he also teaches.