Ness

<b>Robert Macfarlane (Author) </b><br> <b>Robert Macfarlane</b> is the bestselling author of <i>Mountains of the Mind The Wild Places The Old Ways </i><i>Landmarks </i>and <i>Underland</i> and<i> </i>co-creator of <i>The Lost Words </i>and <i>The Lost Spells</i><i>.</i> <i>Mountains of the Mind</i> won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and <i>The Wild Places</i> won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. <i>The Lost Words</i> won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge and writes on environmentalism literature and travel for publications including the <i>Guardian</i> the <i>Sunday Times</i> and <i>The New York Times</i>. He is now working on his third book with long-time collaborator Jackie Morris: <i>The Book of Birds</i>.<br><br><b>Stanley Donwood (Author) </b><br> <b>Stanley Donwood</b> is a graphic designer artist and writer. He has worked with the British band Radiohead since 1994 producing the artwork for all their albums and promotional materials. He is also the author of numerous books including <i>Catacombs of Terror! Slowly Downward </i>and <i>Small Thoughts. </i>His collaboration with Robert Macfarlane <i>Ness</i> will be published in November 2019.<br><br> <i>Ness</i> goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry beyond the word beyond the bomb - it is an aftertime song. It is dark ever so dark nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age. <i>Ness</i> is something else and feels like it always has been. <p><b>Eerie unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of <i>Holloway </i>Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood<i><br><br> 'Ness</i> goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry beyond the word beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song' Max Porter Booker-longlisted author of<i> Grief is the Thing with Feathers</i></b><br><br> Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him.<br><br> Five more-than-human forms are traversing land sea and time towards The Green Chapel moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.<br><br> <i>What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life?</i><br><br><b>Using word and image the pair have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella part-prose-poem part-mystery play in <i>Ness</i> their skills combine to dazzling troubling effect.</b><br><br> <b>Robert Macfarlane </b>is the author of <i>The Lost Words </i>with Jackie Morris<i> The Old Ways</i> and <i>Underland</i>.<b> Stanley Donwood </b>is an artist and the author of <i>Slowly Downward</i><i> Household Worms</i> and <i>Bad Island</i>.</p> <p><b>Eerie unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of <i>Holloway </i>Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood<i><br><br> 'Ness</i> goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry beyond the word beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song' Max Porter Booker-longlisted author of<i> Grief is the Thing with Feathers</i></b><br><br> Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him.<br><br> Five more-than-human forms are traversing land sea and time towards The Green Chapel moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.<br><br> <i>What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life?</i><br><br><b>Using word and image the pair have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella part-prose-poem part-mystery play in <i>Ness</i> their skills combine to dazzling troubling effect.</b><br><br> <b>Robert Macfarlane </b>is the author of <i>The Lost Words </i>with Jackie Morris<i> The Old Ways</i> and <i>Underland</i>.<b> Stanley Donwood </b>is an artist and the author of <i>Slowly Downward</i><i> Household Worms</i> and <i>Bad Island</i>.</p>