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The Ghost Paperback – 23 Mar 2015

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Matador; UK ed. edition (23 Mar. 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1784623008
  • ISBN-13: 978-1784623005
  • Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.5 x 20 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,701,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

Andrew Lowe is a culture journalist who lives in London. He has written for The Guardian and Sunday Times, and contributed to numerous books and magazines on film, music, TV, videogames, sex and shin splints. The Ghost is his first novel.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA really good read
By john stevens on 11 April 2017
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A good plot with interesting twists and turns. Strong story telling that kept me interested all the way through the book.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood Debut
By Ashrae TOP 500 REVIEWER on 9 Jun. 2015
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Firstly, I want to thank the author for a wonderful trip down memory lane. I was a child of the 70s too and some of the things that were described in the flashback parts of this book really took me back to those days.
I have been used to reading fast paced thrillers recently and so it made for a pleasant change to read a book that didn't go off all guns blazing. This book is a slow burner. For the majority, I really didn't know where it was going but that only made me hunger for more information making this book quite hard to put down.
The book flits between Dorian as now, married with a child holding down a job as a film critic and as he was a child growing up in the 70s. We follow him, in the present, as his life starts to crumble and unravel and we learn that what is happening now is linked to his childhood.
The writing is evocative, almost poetic in parts and this adds to the tension and suspense. The characterisation was good. I really didn't like Dorian, but I have learned that it's not important to like characters as long as I can connect to them in some emotional way. In fact, apart from Dorian's son, I really didn't like any of the characters.
As already mentioned, for most of the book I had no idea where we were going, how some of the stuff we learned in flashback was relevant but, slowly slowly catchy monkey and my patience was rewarded with a climax that brought everything together to my satisfaction.
All in all, a good debut novel and one that will move Mr Lowe onto my watch list.

I received a free ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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5.0 out of 5 starsto the extent that I was sad to put it down at the end and leave ...
By SophieB on 14 April 2015
Format: Paperback
An engaging read that builds up the suspense and keeps you guessing right until the very end. The novel deftly flits between past and present day, setting the scene perfectly for the story's climax. The attention to detail throughout encapsulated the mood and atmosphere of the novel, to the extent that I was sad to put it down at the end and leave the characters and their stories behind.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTerrific thriller that draws huge uneasiness from out of an otherwise ordinary life
By Richard Hammond TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 19 April 2015
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A thriller that reveals it's inciting incident in such a way as to maximise the tension and page-turning rate. I burned fast through The Ghost eager for discovery but never impatient when only given hints and glimpses of one of many possible revelations. Structurally, the book plunges in and out of two pools from one lifetime, the present and a beautifully-drawn 1970s childhood. The 1970s chapters are written in what feels like a very controlled and deliberate mix of past and present-tense third-person; which gives those sections a very compelling dream-like reality. It's not the 1970s through rose-tint, or the exaggerated grime of TV's Life on Mars; it's the 1970s as we lived it - chipped straight out of the factory but new and the best we understood all the same. Also, Lowe manages to squeeze in an excellent jazz-mag-in-the-bushes moment that you're about to laugh at and then queasily have your stomach churned over. Lowe also pulls off a neat trick in keeping us engaged in the outcomes for a protagonist who really isn't terribly likable as a human being - it's a trick that the author nevers allows revelation of it's workings.

In the end, it's a universal story terrifically well told and delivered with a twisted flourish that had me in mind of the best of David Mitchell by way of Michael Marshall. Thoroughly recommended, especially if you're 40-something and were more than a bit rough around the edges as a kid. Which I was and which, I suspect, Andrew Lowe was too.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA simmering thriller with deep tension
By Cassie on 1 July 2015
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This self-assured first novel is a psychological thriller centred around a film critic called Dorian Cook. The book fluctuates between 12-year-old Dorian in the steamy days of 1976 and present-day disillusioned failing film-critic Dorian. Into his current miserable life a threat from the past slowly wrecks havoc on his life and on the lives of his childhood friends.

In this tightly constructed novel, the story simmers throughout, the tension tangible but not glaringly obvious at the start. This slow-burner effect is highly effective for the most part, especially when serious plot twists are revealed with disarming execution. If you are looking for a constant fast-paced book this might not be for you as Andrew Lowe takes time to create detailed characters and settings.

The summer of 1976 is brilliantly captured and as a young child in the 70s I could easily relate to the mood and atmosphere of the time. Likewise the brooding cynicism of current day film journalism seems utterly plausible and this should come as no surprise as some of the settings and situations are, according to the writer, semi-autobiographical.

The main character Dorian Cook is a flawed and unsympathetic character and even when he is a child I could feel nothing but disdain for him and his friends who are portrayed in equally uncompromising terms. Having said that they are well written, sketched in fine detail through ‘showing’ and not ‘telling’ and as the book progressed I became accustomed not to having to support or identify with any one specific character in the book.

The one aspect of the book that I struggled with to start with was its slow pace and progression of the story, however I quickly understood that this was deliberate and central element to the novel.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsNot what I expected

I'm not quite sure what I expected from this book, but it wasn't what I expected. I think, perhaps, I had a vague idea of it as a fast-paced, plot-driven thriller that I'd consume... Read more

Published 15 months ago by Daphne Kapsali
5.0 out of 5 starsUnderstated, poetic, and utterly gripping

I’d been looking forward to reading The Ghost for a while, and the wait was well worth it. Lowe is a master of the slow, steady build-up, with an intricately woven plot drawing... Read more

Published 16 months ago by GeorgiaB123
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Gathered pace to an ending that I definitely did not see coming.

Published 16 months ago by rachel wilson
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This is an exceptional read. What I loved about this book was not just the quality of the writing style but the formatting. Read more

Published 16 months ago by Pat McDonald
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Thriller, Great Character Building!

When I started reading The Ghost I was a bit unsure about it, but that soon changed. Yes, the characters were not the typical, there was not the wonderful good guy idealize and the... Read more

Published 18 months ago by Jordon Greene
5.0 out of 5 starsShow me the boy and I'll show you the man

It's hard to believe this is the author's first book. He writes with a steady and commanding hand on the tiller. Read more

Published 23 months ago by Tom Evans
4.0 out of 5 starsA first rate book by someone I hope we will hear more from

The Ghost reads like a book the writer had to write. For this reader, it was also a book the reader had to read to the end – despite the story it tells being harrowing at times. Read more

Published 24 months ago by The Bagster
5.0 out of 5 starsVERY ABSORBING!!! A REAL PAGE TURNER!!!

AMAZING!!!! I enjoyed it so much I am reading it for a second time. I have got friends and family reading it too and they all think it's fantastic. Read more

Published on 24 May 2015 by lillian lyth
5.0 out of 5 starsA taut and perfectly paced thriller

A taut and perfectly paced thriller that pulls you through the past and present of its agonised antagonist. Read more

Published on 21 May 2015 by Mr. TM Tucker
5.0 out of 5 starsSurprise...surprise!

This book surprised me! I like books that surprise me - so many don't. So many are predictable about the survival of the hero/ine and so many have totally predictable endings. Read more

Published on 20 May 2015 by david williams

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