John Harwood
John Harwood
is the author of several novels of gothic suspense, including The Seance, which won the Aurealis Award for best horror novel, and The Ghost Writer, which won the International Horror Guild’s Best First
Novel Award. Aside from fiction, his published work includes biography, poetry,
and literary history.
All Books By John Harwood
Pennsylvania Avenue
- By: John Harwood
- Narrator: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.27(76 ratings)
With keen inside analysis and great stories drawn from astonishing access to Washington’s key players, Pennsylvania Avenue takes us behind the scenes to show what really happens on the first street in America and how that affects the country.
The last decade produced one of the greatest political transformations in American history: a shift from the Reagan revolution, which had begun to dismantle the Democratic establishment. Since the Reagan era, the way Americans pick their representatives has undergone changes that have produced a new kind of politician and new institutions, turning upside down the way things get done on Pennsylvania Avenue. Seib and Harwood expose the forces that produced this great change and reveal how contemporary politicians are making the new power game work, along with the consequences for us all.
... Read moreThe Asylum
- By: John Harwood
- Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.39(3858 ratings)
A brilliant new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author of The Ghost Writer and The S+(r)ance
Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before and then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London: “Your patient must be an imposter.”
Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle’s house? And what has become of her two most precious possessions, a dragonfly pin left to her by her mother and a journal that contains the only record of those missing weeks? Georgina’s perilous quest to free herself takes her from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.
Here is another delicious read from the author praised by Ruth Rendell as having “a gift for creating suspense, apparently effortlessly, as if it belongs in the nature of fiction.”
... Read moreThe Ghost Writer
- By: John Harwood
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.45(5864 ratings)
In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother’s drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother’s role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola’s chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family’s mystery–or will they bring about his untimely death, as they seem to foretell?
Harwood’s astonishing, assured debut shows us just how dangerous family skeletons–and stories–can be.
... Read moreThe Seance
- By: John Harwood
- Narrator: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.56(5701 ratings)
A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer
Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there…
Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance’s sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a s+(r)ance; perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life.
So begins this brilliant and gripping novel, a dark mystery set in late-Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains–and of murder. Constance’s bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. Years before, a family disappeared at Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation. Now the Hall belongs to Constance, and she must descend into the darkness at the heart of the Wraxford mystery to find the truth–even at the cost of her life.
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