{"product_id":"the-hill-in-the-dark-grove","title":"The Hill in the Dark Grove","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A sumptuously written, dark meditation on aging, obsolescence, and the brutalizing march of time and progress . . . There's something long buried in the mountains of North Wales; Liam Higginson expertly brings it all to the surface.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Paul Tremblay, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHorror Movie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Steeped in history, anger and spirits . . . Higginson's foreshadowing is subtle, his prose well constructed and his specificity exacting. . . . [An] impressive debut.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gracefully and lovingly rendered with the heft of folklore, land, and history . . . evokes, in dazzling detail, the tribulations of everyday life and the grandeur of ancestry . . . bewitching.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of \u003ci\u003eMonstrilio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A slow-burning, reeking creep of a novel about eerie ancient places and dangerous interlopers . . . I loved it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Claire Fuller, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] not-to-be-missed novel.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSunday Times Style\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Provides just the right combination of action, reflection and tension to accompany you through a long winter night. . . . [Blends] deep commitment to its setting--both material reality and the rhythms and changes experienced throughout the calendar year that forms its timeframe--with a lively, intriguing interest in the folklore and fantasy underpinning the characters' lives.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This darkly atmospheric novel is infused with centuries of Welsh history, myth and legend. . . . It's a cracking, if creepy, read that left me hungry for more Welsh literature.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eProspect \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"An intensely imagined and beautifully crafted novel about myth, memory, landscape, and the extraordinary, unworldly power of the deep past . . . powerful, inventive, and gripping to the very end.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ian McGuire, author of the Booker Prize-longlisted \u003ci\u003eThe North Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Eerie in a way that is rich and abides in the mind.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Garrett Carr, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boy from the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Evocative and deftly done; a book of echoes, haunted by the sheer vastness of time and landscape . . . a celebration of love's persistence, a summoning of ancient lore, a superb debut.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of \u003ci\u003eAlmost Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Hill in the Dark Grove\u003c\/i\u003e adopts familiar Welsh myths and tales -retold to build the scaffolding for Higginson's unnerving saga. His compelling writing vibrates with unease through the intimacy of Carwyn and Rhian.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Anthony Shapland, author of \u003ci\u003eA Room Above a Shop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Liam Higginson is a new talent in Welsh storytelling. Atmospheric, chilling, and incredibly touching, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Hill in the Dark Grove\u003c\/i\u003e holds the reader in its arms and shows us how our stories, our objects and memories, are shaped and held by the land.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Joshua Jones, Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eLocal Fires\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Wickedly good contemporary gothic horror . . . Readers will savor this creepy and sumptuous masterpiece.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bleak but bracing . . . Higginson demonstrates remarkable tonal command of a structurally complex story, interweaving Welsh folklore and post-Thatcher regional history with a tender romance and moments of visceral and supernatural violence.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hauntingly atmospheric, with undeniable charm at points and chilling sequences at others, Higginson's debut is a wonderful new addition to the folk horror landscape.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLiam Higginson\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in the deepest hinterlands of rural North Wales. In what some might generously call a varied career, he has been an extremely bored accountant, helped out at a B\u0026amp;B in a French watermill, run errands for the CEO of a large consultancy firm, spent lockdown in an empty holiday cottage while a herd of goats took over the town, and now works with his wife at Llandudno Pier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIn this gripping debut, steeped in Welsh folklore, a husband and wife living in the beautiful but isolated mountains of Snowdonia stumble upon a buried Neolithic ruin--awakening a mysterious, ancient presence with its own dark designs. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sumptuously written, chilling folk horror novel.\"--Paul Tremblay, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHorror Movie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Head Full of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Most Anticipated Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarwyn and his wife, Rhian, have lived a quiet life as sheep farmers in the remote Welsh mountains for decades, tending to ancestral land that has been in Carwyn's family for generations. But recent years have taken their toll: local friends lost one by one to old age or rising prices; the accumulation of debts; new English tourists, more every year, disrespecting the land--littering, camping on private property, needing to be rescued when they misjudge the elements. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Carwyn finds a strange stone head in a disused corner of the farm, he realizes the artifact is just one piece of something much larger--something unfathomably old. Despite Rhian's protests, Carwyn becomes obsessed with unearthing the structure, and soon neglects the daily work of the farm to keep digging. Meanwhile, the sheep fall sick more easily than any season before, and a tragic accident on market day threatens to leave an increasingly isolated Rhian without a way to satisfy their ever-more-insistent creditors. Through it all, Carwyn becomes convinced that uncovering the site and determining its original purpose will be the key to solving everything. But there was a reason his ancestors kept the past buried, and in disturbing the earth, he has called forth a power greater and more terrible than he could have imagined. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnthralling and atmospheric, Liam Higginson's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Hill in the Dark Grove\u003c\/i\u003e expertly weaves together myth, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror, heralding a sparkling new literary talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9798217154166, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9798217154166, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/29\/2026 (EAN 9798217154166, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/01\/2026 (EAN 9798217154166, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496049803542,"sku":"9798217154166","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9798217154166.jpg?v=1783051745","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hill-in-the-dark-grove","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}