Eerie unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators
of Holloway Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood 'Ness 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 Grief is the Thing with Feathers 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. 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. What happens when land comes to life? What
would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image the pair have together
made a minor modern myth. Part-novella part-prose-poem part-mystery play in Ness their
skills combine to dazzling troubling effect. Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words
with Jackie Morris The Old Ways and Underland. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of
Slowly Downward Household Worms and Bad Island.
