Tariq Goddard was born in London in 1975. His first three novels were short listed for various awards including Whitbread (Costa) First Novel Award, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. His fourth and fifth books won the Independent Publishers Gold medal for Horror Writing and Silver medal for Literary Fiction respectively. He lives on a farm in Wiltshire with his wife and children and is the Publisher of Repeater Books.
"Deranged police procedural meets darkly comic folk horror in Wild
Wild Wessex. Utterly mesmerising."
"It's going to be every outsider's beach read, a doorway into the
future."
"Enchanting. Goddard here comes into his own as the Gris-Gris man
of English fiction."
"Here, as in all of Tariq Goddard’s fiction, the ordinary and the
uncanny, the mundane and the metaphysical—above all, the sardonic
and the profound—merge with one another in some mysterious
borderland that he alone seems to have explored."
"A masterwork of the uncanny. A trip into fresh, bizarre,
thrilling new territory. Reading it is almost a hallucinatory
experience—it takes daring swerves away from what we call reality,
but stays close enough to life to get under your skin. By the end
you'll be altered on a cellular level, questioning what you thought
you knew."
"A wyrd & eerie tale for wyrd & eerie times, High John the
Conqueror is, like High John de Conqueror itself, 'a genuine
hybrid and a one-off,' crafting & grafting police noir, folk horror
and occult parapolitics into an altered States of the Nation novel
of monsters past and present. PD James meets MR James!"
"This book is brilliant and crackles with wit, invention and
insight."
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