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Black Chalk
Christopher J. Yates
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Description for Black Chalk
Paperback. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258.
One game. Six students. Five survivors.
It was only ever meant to be a game.
A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results.
Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099581628
SKU
V9780099581628
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-44
About Christopher J. Yates
Christopher J. Yates studied law at Wadham College, Oxford from 1990-93 and initially pursued a career in law before he began working in puzzles, representing the UK at the World Puzzle Championships. Since then he has worked as a freelance journalist, sub-editor and puzzles editor/compiler. In 2007 he moved to New York City with his wife, and currently lives in the East Village.
Reviews for Black Chalk
An inventive and intricate psychological puzzle thriller that mystifies, torments, disturbs, beguiles... a powerfully intelligent debut
Marcel Berlins
The Times
A compulsive page-turner that will hold your attention until the very last word
Natasha Harding
Sun
Sinister, addictive and unpredictable – this is a novel to be devoured greedily, at speed, but one that will leave its footprint on your memory for far longer
Natasha Lunn
Red
Yates’s take on the collegiate thriller lives up to early comparisons to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History... filled with gleeful malevolence
Grazia
[A] chilling debut...this is a thriller, a cautionary tale and a sobering exploration of unintended consequences rolled into one
Daily Mail
Black Chalk grabs from the get-go... Yates plots with tantalizing skill
Ellen Shapiro
People
This addictive psychological thriller will have you hooked from start to game over
Stylist
Compelling
John O'Connell
Guardian
A truly chilling thriller, with campus-fun-gone-wrong echoes of Donna Tartt's The Secret History
Psychologies
A very exciting debut - like The Secret History, but so much creepier... This is intellectually challenging psychological thriller writing at a high level
Shots Mag
Marcel Berlins
The Times
A compulsive page-turner that will hold your attention until the very last word
Natasha Harding
Sun
Sinister, addictive and unpredictable – this is a novel to be devoured greedily, at speed, but one that will leave its footprint on your memory for far longer
Natasha Lunn
Red
Yates’s take on the collegiate thriller lives up to early comparisons to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History... filled with gleeful malevolence
Grazia
[A] chilling debut...this is a thriller, a cautionary tale and a sobering exploration of unintended consequences rolled into one
Daily Mail
Black Chalk grabs from the get-go... Yates plots with tantalizing skill
Ellen Shapiro
People
This addictive psychological thriller will have you hooked from start to game over
Stylist
Compelling
John O'Connell
Guardian
A truly chilling thriller, with campus-fun-gone-wrong echoes of Donna Tartt's The Secret History
Psychologies
A very exciting debut - like The Secret History, but so much creepier... This is intellectually challenging psychological thriller writing at a high level
Shots Mag