Sqwubbsy Books - Rare and Collectable Books Online

Book Search

View Basket Checkout


View basket

Proceed to checkout









Website design by Cite

I - M > LUKYANENKO, Sergei > Night Watch (SERGEI LUKYANENKO) (UK PROOF+PRESS P)

< back

Night Watch (UK PROOF + PRESS PACK)


Price: £12.99 / $19.49

Format: First Edition UK Proof/ARC
Signed: No
Publisher: William Heinnemann
ISBN: 0434014125
In stock: 1

Unread/Fine UK Proof/ARC of this thrilling horror novel, plus a very rare A4 publishers press pack containg sample chapters, reviews, film reviews, all housed in an official A4 wallet.

First in a trilogy, this book is a must read for any fans of anything gothic or vampire. I absolutely loved it, and can't wait for the next installment. The book was relesed in Russia in 2005 and has already sold over 1 Million hardbacks, and has become a huge cult novel. It has also been converted into film in Russian, and is currently being filmed in English.

The following link gives you a flavour of just how big and how spectacular this book and film is.

http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/nwnd/

"Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. The Others are magicians, possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The two factions, having long before realised that open struggle can only create chaos and disaster, coexist in an uneasy truce, each side aware of, and keeping a close eye on, the other's activities around the city. Their aim is not mutual destruction, but rather the maintenance of the precarious balance between good and evil. Anton, a young Other, who owes allegiance to the Light, is a Night Watch agent, newly seconded to patrol the streets and metro of the city, to protect ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. On his rounds, Anton comes across a young woman, Svetlana, who he realises is under a powerful curse that threatens the entire city, and a boy, Egor, a young Other, as yet unaware of his own enormous power, whom Anton narrowly saves from vampires. Anton is assigned a partner, Olga, a powerful female Other who is trapped in the form of an owl in punishment for a past error of judgement. Together with their colleagues in the Night Watch, they struggle to remove Svetlana's curse and to protect Egor from the vampires that pursue him. Set in a vividly realised post-Soviet Russia, where vampires operate under license and Good and Evil exist in a Cold War-like balance of power, "The Night Watch" is a page-turning fantasy thriller, an international bestseller that represents the most original writing in its genre since Anne Rice's "An Interview With a Vampire"