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Epiphany is now available on audio

My second book, Epiphany, which first appeared in 1997, is now available on audio from WF Howes. You can read more about the audio book, narrated by Peter Marinker, here, and listen to the opening section below.  

The book switches between the San Francisco of 1975 and Seattle of 1995 and tells the story of a set of students haunted by a tragedy from their college days, one that reawakens when they least expect it. The Guardian described the original on its release as ‘John Fowles on acid’.

Here’s a funny thing about this book. Though it was never published in America it got a bit of a cult following there and one day I got an email from someone who read it, loved it and said, ‘That bakery in Palo Alto you mention in the opening - my grandfather ran it!’. Er, I made it up, or so I thought. The bakery is in the clip below by the way…

The Garden of Evil on the Page 99 Test

The Page 99 test is an interesting web site that asks authors to look at a single page of one of their books - 69 or 99 - and try to put what’s there in the context of the whole work. It’s run in tandem with the Campaign for the American Reader, ‘an independent initiative to encourage more reader to read more books’. 

I’m happy to say you will find Page 99 of The Garden of Evil there, with my comments right now, and listed on the Campaign for the American Reader web site. Thanks to everyone associated with them for this opportunity.

An audio extract from The Lizard’s Bite

Listen to the author reading an extract from the fourth Nic Costa book.