Plague of Gulls [Signed JHC]

EDITION 200 Jacketed Hardcovers signed by Stephen Gregory with illustrated endpapers. ABOUT THIS BOOK Stephen Gregory uses the medieval castle and town walls of Caernarfon as the backdrop for his latest dark and disturbing novel. When David Kewish suffers an excruciating accident on his eighteenth birthday, the whole of his summer is blighted . . . and when a fledging blackbacked gull comes tapping at his front door in the middle of the night, and the town is besieged by flocks of gulls, it is this bird which fuels the tension of the story and increases the friction between the characters. Kes meets The Birds in this terrifying story of loneliness and madness.

About the Author

Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer, although his seven novels reflect a love of the English and Welsh countryside and especially his interest in birds. The Cormorant, which won the Somerset Maughan Awards in 1985 and was made into a BBC television film, was followed by The Woodwitch and The Blood of Angels, all written in and around the mountains of Snowdonia. After a year as a screenwriter in Hollywood alongside the notorious filmdirector William Friedkin, Stephen spent 15 years teaching in Borneo, but spent more of the long, hot tropical evenings writing four more novels, set back home in rural England and Wales… and using a bird here and there as a focus of each story. Stephen Gregory now lives in France. He and his wife Chris share a small house beside the river Vienne with their dog Poppy and cats Gudrun and Smokey, while they are slowly rebuilding a 16th century fortified-farmhouse.

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