ISDAL by Susannah Dickey

ISDAL by Susannah DickeyShortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First Collection The much anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime. ISDAL is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we follow the flirty co presenters of a podcast about the mystery of 'Isdal Woman', whose burnt remains were discovered in Norway in 1970 and who has never

Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival

philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire

the sound felt-tips make on paper

Roe brings together eyewitness accounts

She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body

so twisted and so utterly compelling that it actually messes with your mind' DAILY MAIL

in Palm Sunday

bestselling Women Don't Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic

a precocious thirteen-year-old girl

In easily understood terminology

Praise for Joanne Harris's other books set in the St Oswald's world:

the four sisters complete each other