Somerville Historian Nick Pullen (2008) returns to College to launch his debut novel, The Black Hunger. Please join us in the Mary Somerville room at 6pm, where Nick will be giving a short reading from his book, and refreshments will be available. This event is free and open to all.
It is 1921. John Sackville, former secretary to the British legation of Sikkim, in North India, will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell in a London asylum as he mourns the death of his valet and secret lover, Garrett, and the gnawing hunger inside him grows impossible to ignore.
He must write his last testament before it is too late. Because the forces that were set in motion during his secret mission to the mountains of Tibet and the steppes of Mongolia are on the march, and they must be stopped, if humanity is to endure.
Sackville’s manuscript will take us backwards in time, leading us from the steppes of the Ukraine, where otherworldly creatures stalk the night, to the stone circles of Scotland, where black magic is at work, before ending in the icy peaks of Tibet and Mongolia, where an ancient evil stirs…
The Black Hunger is published by Orbit Books on 8th October and is available to pre-order now.