Ness av Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood

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<p><b>Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of <i>Holloway, </i>Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood<i><br><br> ''Ness</i> goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song'' Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of<i> Grief is the Thing with Feathers</i></b><br><br> Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him.<br><br> Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.<br><br><i>What happens when land comes to life? Wha