pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: THE THING ON THE SHORE
By: Tom Fletcher
Format: Paperback

List price: £8.99
Our price: £6.56
Discount:
27% off
You save: £2.43
ISBN 10: 1849161364
ISBN 13: 9781849161367
Availability: Reprinting. This item may be subject to delays or cancellation.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: QUERCUS PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 11 March, 2011
Pages: 432
Description: The second in the series that began with The Leaping, set in a malevolent call-centre that just might be alive - affirming Tom Fletcher as the dark master for the 'temp' generation.
Synopsis: The Thing on the Shore takes place in a call-centre in Whitehaven, just a short hop from Sellafield along Cumbria's grim western coastline. When Artemis Black (from The Leaping) is assigned to manage the centre on behalf of a mysterious multinational corporation called Interext, the isolation and remoteness of the place encourage him to implement a decidedly unhinged personal project, installing what purports to be cutting-edge AI technology, with a real, 'human' voice, on the automated answering systems. As a result of Artemis' actions, one of his employees, Arthur, becomes aware of an intangible landscape inside the labyrinthine systems of the call-centre - a landscape in which he can feel some kind of otherworldly consciousness stirring and in which, perhaps as a result of his father's increasingly alarming eccentricities, he feels that he could find his recently deceased mother. Arthur takes refuge in this belief as his father, his job, and his house slowly deteriorate around him. He begins to conflate the mysterious, interstitial region that exists down the phonelines with the sea, as that was where his mother drowned.In a way he is right - Artemis' meddlings have attracted something, it is just not as benevolent as he thinks...
Publication: UK
Imprint: Quercus Publishing
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
AMBASSADOR
AMBASSADOR (HB)
ASSASSIN (HB)
BEFORE THE RAIN (PB)
BRAIN FREEZE X50 PACK (PB)
BRAIN FREEZE: WORLD BOOK DAY 2018 (PB)
CHRISTMASAURUS
CHRISTMASAURUS & THE WINTER WITCH SIGNED (HB)
CHRISTMASAURUS (CD)
CHRISTMASAURUS AND THE NAUGHTY LIST
CHRISTMASAURUS AND THE NAUGHTY LIST (CD)
CHRISTMASAURUS AND THE NAUGHTY LIST (PB)
CHRISTMASAURUS AND THE WINTER WITCH
CHRISTMASAURUS AND THE WINTER WITCH (CD)
CHRISTMASAURUS AND THE WINTER WITCH (HB)
CHRISTMASAURUS AND THE WINTER WITCH (PB)
CHRISTMASAURUS CAROL
CHRISTMASAURUS CAROL (HB)
CHRISTMASAURUS CAROL (PB)
CHRISTMASAURUS CRACKER (PB)
CHRISTMASAURUS MUSICAL EDITION SIGNED (HB)
CHRISTMASAURUS THE (PB)
CHRISTMASURUS (HB)
CREAKERS (CD)
CREAKERS (HB)
CREAKERS (PB)
DANGER GANG
DANGER GANG (CD)
DANGER GANG (HB)
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A LOT! (PB)
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PIRATE
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PRINCESS (PB)
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A REINDEER!
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A SUPERHERO
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED AN AUDIOBOOK (CD)
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED EASTER!
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED HALLOWEEN!
DINOSAUR THAT POOPED UNABRIDGED CD (CD)
DOLIGSAWRWS (HB)
EVE ILLUSION (PB)
EVE OF MAN (PB)
EVE OF MAN: BOOK 2 (PB)
EVE OF MAN: BOOK 3 (HB)
FLETCHER (HB)
GLEAM (HB)
GLEAM (PB)
IDLE HANDS (HB)
IDLE HANDS (PB)
IL Y A UN DRAGON DANS CE LIVRE (HB)
IL Y A UN MONSTRE DANS CE LIVRE (HB)
LIFE ON OUR PLANET (HB)
MCFLY - UNSAID THINGS...OUR STORY
MCFLY - UNSAID THINGS...OUR STORY (PB)
NAKED DIPLOMACY
NAKED DIPLOMACY (HB)
NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMASAURUS (HB)
SPACE BAND
SPACE BAND (CD)
SPACE BAND (HB)
SPATIO-TEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR LONGITUDINAL AND TIME-SERIES IMAGE DATA (PB)
SPATIO-TEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR LONGITUDINAL AND TIME-SERIES IMAGE DATA (PB)
TEN SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR A WORLD IN FLUX
TEN SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR A WORLD IN FLUX (HB)
TEN SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR A WORLD IN FLUX (PB)
THE CHRISTMASAURUS (CD)
THE CHRISTMASAURUS (HB)
THE CHRISTMASAURUS (PB)
THE CREAKERS (CD)
THE CREAKERS (HB)
THE CREAKERS (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A LOT!
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A LOT!
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A LOT! (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PLANET (HB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PLANET (HB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PLANET!
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PLANET! (HB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PLANET! (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A PLANET! (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED A RAINBOW! (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED CHRISTMAS
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED CHRISTMAS (HB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED CHRISTMAS (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED DADDY! (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED LITTLE LIBRARY
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED SPACE (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED THE BED (HB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED THE BED (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED THE PAST! (PB)
THE DINOSAUR THAT POOPED THE PAST! (PB)
THE LEAPING (PB)
THE NAKED DIPLOMAT
THE NAKED DIPLOMAT (PB)
THE OBVERSE BOOK OF GHOSTS (HB)
THE RAVENGLASS EYE (PB)
THE SAFE CHILDREN (PB)
THERE''S A BEAR IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A BEAR IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A DINOSAUR IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A DRAGON IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A DRAGON IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A DRAGON IN YOUR BOOK (HB)
THERE''S A DRAGON IN YOUR BOOK (HB)
THERE''S A LITTLE CHICK IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A SUPERHERO IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A SUPERHERO IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A SUPERHERO IN YOUR BOOK (HB)
THERE''S A UNICORN IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A WITCH IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S A WITCH IN YOUR BOOK (PB)
THERE''S A WOLF IN YOUR BOOK (PB)
THERE''S A WOLF IN YOUR BOOK: WORLD BOOK DAY 2021
THERE''S A WOLF IN YOUR BOOK: WORLD BOOK DAY 2021
THERE''S AN ALIEN IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S AN ALIEN IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S AN ALIEN IN YOUR BOOK (HB)
THERE''S AN ELF IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S AN ELF IN YOUR BOOK
THERE''S AN ELF IN YOUR BOOK (HB)
THERE'S A MONSTER IN YOUR BOOK (HB)
THERE'S A MONSTER IN YOUR BOOK (PB)
THERE’S A LITTLE SNOWMAN IN YOUR BOOK
THERES A MONSTER IN YOUR BOOK (HB)
THERES A UNICORN IN YOUR BOOK (PB)
THERES AN ALIEN IN YOUR BOOK SIGNED ED (HB)
UNTITLED TOM FLETCHER MIDDLE GRADE 1 (PB)
WITCH BOTTLE
WITCH BOTTLE

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
The Woman In Black (Paperback)
By: Susan Hill
Vintage Publishing
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Frankenstein (Paperback)
By: Mary Shelley, Dr. Siv Jansson, Dr. Keith Carabine
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Our Price : £2.91
more details
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Omnibus Leatherbound Classics) (Hardback)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Barnes & Noble Inc
Our Price : £29.20
more details
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Paperback)
By: Ransom Riggs
Quirk Books
Our Price : £6.56
more details
The Shining (Paperback)
By: Stephen King
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Our Price : £8.02
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 FICTION
 genre fiction
 horror & ghost stories


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket