Listen to a sample
Night Side of the River
- Author
- Jeanette Winterson
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 5 October 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
Not available in your country
We don't have the rights to sell this audiobook where you are. If it's already in your library you can still listen to it in My Books.
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson
Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.
We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.
We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.
To live amongst us.
To remind us.
To tempt us.
To take their revenge.
These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.
©2023 Jeanette Winterson (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
-
In the stories Winterson is at her best, unsurprisingly, when doing new things with the form
The Times
-
A thought-provoking collection of short stories, interspersed with memories of her own unexplained encounters with the paranormal… The theme that runs through all the stories is loss and how it haunts the living
Daily Mirror
-
Thought-provoking... A captivating and chilling collection examining grief, revenge and how technology can breach the boundary between life and death
Sunday Express
-
Spine-chillingly good
i
See more reviews See fewer reviews
-
Jeanette Winterson brings the classic gothic literature theme into the 21st century by imagining what happens when the undead have to find modern ways to reach out to us... This collection is as hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty and thought-provoking
Independent
-
Winterson the artist at her most potent, melding the viscerally real with the lavishly supernatural
Guardian
-
I loved Night Side of the River. Jeanette Winterson is one of the wittiest writers around today… I can't think of any other writer who can treat death and horror with such lightheartedness and pragmatic cheerfulness but without losing the cold-yet-cosy frisson that comes with all the best ghost stories. MR James would be very happy!
Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
-
A collection of ghost stories that range from campfire-level spooks to speculative reflections on the meaning of life.. As challenging and entertaining as anything undertaken by this endlessly ingenious writer
Los Angeles Times
-
At the height of spooky season, turn off the lights and immerse yourself in the spine-tingling delights of this frighteningly modern ghost story collection. Blurring the lines between nonfiction and campfire tale, this one imagines what would happen if there really was a ghost in the machine
Good Housekeeping
-
This collection is as hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty and thought-provoking
UK Press Syndication
User Reviews
No reviews yet.
Details
- Author
- Jeanette Winterson
- Narrator
- Jeanette Winterson, Vicky Licorish
- Duration
- 9 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 October 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529904390
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Short stories
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette WintersonOur lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.To live amongst us.To remind us.To tempt us.To take their revenge.These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.©2023 Jeanette Winterson (P)2023 Penguin Audio
About xigxag
xigxag is an independent, UK-based audiobook platform and the UK's only B Corp certified audiobook company. We offer nearly 150,000 audiobooks, all with professional human narration. No AI-generated voices. xigxag is rated an Ethical Consumer Best Buy for audiobooks and a top-rated ethical bookshop.
There is no subscription. You buy the audiobooks you want, you own them permanently, and prices start at $13.95. The more you listen over the year, the less you pay per book, and there is always a selection in Listen for Less from $7.95. You can also send audiobooks as gifts using our audiobook gift cards or in-app gifting.
Every audiobook on xigxag has honest reviews covering both the book and the narration, and our community features make it easy to share what you are listening to, discover what others recommend, and find your next listen.
Download or stream on iOS, Android, or in your browser. Browse the full catalogue at xigxag.co.uk.