Win 10 copies of Radio 2 Book Club choice The Devil and the Dark Water

• 29 Sep 2020
• published

The Devil and the Dark Water, the new novel from bestselling author Stuart Turton, has been chosen for the Jo Whiley Radio 2 Book Club. Stuart will be on the show on Monday 5 October.

We have the chance for you to win a set of 10 copies of this novel for your reading group.

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The Devil and the Dark Water

It’s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia.

But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock are slaughtered in the night.

And then the passengers hear a terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them three unholy miracles. First: an impossible pursuit. Second: an impossible theft. Third: an impossible murder.

Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes?

Stuart Turton’s debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the 2018 Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller for three weeks, it has been translated into thirty languages and has also been a bestseller in Italy, Russia and Poland. Stuart lives near London with his wife and daughter.