The Spirit Engineer

Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism, attending seances in the hope they might reach their departed loved ones. William Jackson Crawford is a man of science and a sceptic, but one night with everyone sitting around the circle, voices come to him - seemingly from beyond the veil - placing doubt in his heart and a seed of obsession in his mind.

Could the spirits truly be communicating with him or is this one of Kathleen's parlour tricks gone too far?Based on the true story of Professor William Jackson Crawford and famed medium Kathleen Goligher, and with a cast of characters including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, The Spirit Engineer conjures a haunted, twisted tale of power, paranoia and one ultimate, inescapable truth...

"A marvellous and menacing gothic chiller, filled with secrets and soaked in atmosphere, in which the ghouls and fiends are not of the other world, but this one..." - Neil Blackmore, author of The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle

"With a skilful misdirection that any Edwardian spirit medium would be proud to demonstrate, A.J. West soon turns the screw in this fascinating novel... Obsession builds until the stunning climax of the final shocking seance and its awful repercussions. Was William rights to be convinced? Did he prove ghosts exist?" - Essie Fox, author of The Somnambulist

"Set in a historical moment where science and spiritualism meet, The Spirit Engineer is an ingeniously plotted debut novel." - Sarah Burton, author of The Strange Adventures of H

Hardback

Format: Hardback, 304pages
ISBN: 9780715654330
Publisher: Duckworth
Published: 7 October, 2021
Weight: 412 g
Dimensions: 225 x 145 x 31 mm

Paperback

Format: Paperback, 304pages
ISBN: 9780715654514
Publisher: Duckworth
Published: 21 July, 2022
Weight: 220 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 26 mm

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