Chris Beckett’s latest book is Dark Eden, published by Corvus in Jan 2012.  His short stories have been appearing in magazines and anthologies since 1990, and his story collection, The Turing Test, won the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award in 2009, from a shortlist that included collections  by Booker Prize winner Anne Enright and Whitbread Prize winner Ali Smith.  His novel, The Holy Machine, was published in the UK by Corvus in July 2010, having previously been published in the US.  His novel Marcher, which appeared in 2009, has so far only been published in the US.

This site has details of  all his published  fiction,  and the full text  of several short stories   It will also provide news about Chris Beckett’s writing, and allow you to get in touch with Chris or his agent, John Jarrold.

If in need of appropriate background music while perusing this site, please click here.  (‘The Holy Machine’, by Southern Tenant Folk Union.)

Featured book:

Dark Eden

Book coverFive hundred people live in in single community in an enclosed valley on the sunless planet Eden where, over a century ago, their two ancestors were marooned.

Calling themselves Family, they still cling to the hope that one day someone will come and bring them back to Earth, where light and heat does not come from trees, but from a bright star in the sky.

John Redlantern defies Family’s most sacred traditions and leads a small group of followers out of the valley and across mountains that are not only covered in snow and ice, but are completely dark,  in search of wider lands.   It had to happen but it comes at a terrible price, for it brings bloodshed and division into the world.

A novel about how people relate to the past and how they move forward into the future..

Published by Corvus.

Hardback on Amazon UK / Amazon US

Kindle edition (UK) / Kindle (US)

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