The Last Werewolf
- 6 Feb 2014
- 9781782112662
- £9.99
- 352 pp
- 129×198mm
- 6 Oct 2011
- 9780857860484
- £20.99
- 11 hrs
- 7 Apr 2011
- 9780857860705
- £7.99
- 352 pp
In a few words
‘Sexy, funny, blisteringly intelligent’ The Times
In a few words
You’re the last. I’m sorry. The end is coming. . . . Audio version read by Robin Sachs.
In a few words
You’re the last. I’m sorry. The end is coming.
Like an updated version of Dracula, only for werewolves, and as rewritten by Bret Easton Ellis.
Playfully brainy... wry, world-weary Jake Marlowe would make a fabulous dinner companion. Just not during a full moon
Justin Cronin, Author Of The Passage
New York TimesLike an updated version of Dracula, only for werewolves, and as rewritten by Bret Easton Ellis.
Playfully brainy... wry, world-weary Jake Marlowe would make a fabulous dinner companion. Just not during a full moon
Justin Cronin, Author Of The Passage
New York TimesYes, really - the narrator is a werewolf, the film rights have already been optioned by Ridley Scott and the publishers are comparing the author with Stephen King. But the novel is strangely better than these facts suggest; sexy, funny, blisteringly intelligent, and without a hint of Twilight. Jacob Marlowe is the last of his kind, and life is lonely when you have a habit of killing and eating the people you love .... Duncan is the cleverest literary horror merchant since Bram Stoker
Kate Saunders
The TimesA magnificent novel. A brutal, indignant, lunatic howl. A sexy, blood-spattered page-turner, beautifully crafted and full of genuine suspense, that tears the thorax out of the horror genre to create something that stands rapturous and majestic and entirely on its own.
Nick Cave
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YOU’RE THE LAST. I’M SORRY. THE END IS COMING.
For two centuries Jacob Marlowe has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he can’t go on. But as Jake counts down to his demise, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life.
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Jacob Marlowe has lost the will to live. For two centuries he has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he can’t go on.But as Jake counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life.
ROBIN SACHS is a regular audiobook narrator, and has starred in many films and television series. Credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Galaxy Quest.
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One last full moon – then it will all be over.
Jacob Marlowe has lost the will to live. For two hundred years he has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he cannot go on.
But as Jake counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life – and love.
Sexy, smart, bloody and heartbreaking, The Last Werewolf takes literature by the throat.
Loaded with beautifully constructed lunatic ravings ... A sublime study in literary elegance. It is bloody (and) brilliant.
A magnificent novel. A brutal, indignant, lunatic howl. A sexy, blood-spattered page-turner, beautifully crafted and full of genuine suspense, that tears the thorax out of the horror genre to create something that stands rapturous and majestic and entirely on its own.
Nick Cave
Sexy, funny, blisteringly intelligent ... Duncan is the cleverest literary horror merchant since Bram Stoker.
Kate Saunders
The TimesDuncan's monstrous narrator makes for memorably rambunctious company
Loaded with beautifully constructed lunatic ravings ... A sublime study in literary elegance. It is bloody (and) brilliant.
A magnificent novel. A brutal, indignant, lunatic howl. A sexy, blood-spattered page-turner, beautifully crafted and full of genuine suspense, that tears the thorax out of the horror genre to create something that stands rapturous and majestic and entirely on its own.
Nick Cave
Sexy, funny, blisteringly intelligent ... Duncan is the cleverest literary horror merchant since Bram Stoker.
Kate Saunders
The TimesDuncan's monstrous narrator makes for memorably rambunctious company
Loaded with beautifully constructed lunatic ravings... It is a horror that never shies from the human side of lycanthropy; it is a disquisition on the nature of werewolf stories; it is a sublime study in literary elegance. It is bloody (and) brilliant
Robert Epstein
Independent on SundayA brilliantly original thriller, a love story, a witty treatise on male (and female) urges, even an existential musing on what it is to be human.
James Medd
Word MagazineDuncan's monstrous narrator makes for memorably rambunctious company
The Last Werewolf is written with such scandalous ferocity and such grizzly humour it feels like the literary equivalent of howling at the moon. Not since Lon Chaney and John Landis has lycanthropy been such a blast, and Glen Duncan offers more danger, gristle and lunatic brilliance per sentence than any writer I can think of.
Matt Haig
Glen Duncan
View profileGLEN DUNCAN was born in Bolton in 1965 and studied philosophy and literature at Lancaster University. His first novel, Hope, was published in 1997, and has been followed by seven further novels: Love Remains; I, Lucifer, shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Weathercock; Death of an Ordinary Man; The Bloodstone Papers; and A Day and A Night and A Day. The Last Werewolf is the first in the Last Werewolf trilogy of which Talulla Rising is the second part and By Blood We Live is the final instalment. Duncan lives in London.
Glen Duncan
View profileGLEN DUNCAN was born in Bolton in 1965 and studied philosophy and literature at Lancaster University. His first novel, Hope, was published in 1997, and has been followed by seven further novels: Love Remains; I, Lucifer, shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Weathercock; Death of an Ordinary Man; The Bloodstone Papers; and A Day and A Night and A Day. The Last Werewolf is the first in the Last Werewolf trilogy of which Talulla Rising is the second part and By Blood We Live is the final instalment. Duncan lives in London.
Glen Duncan
View profileGLEN DUNCAN was born in Bolton in 1965 and studied philosophy and literature at Lancaster University. His first novel, Hope, was published in 1997, and has been followed by six further novels: Love Remains; I, Lucifer, shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Weathercock; Death of an Ordinary Man; The Bloodstone Papers; and A Day and A Night and A Day. He lives in London.
