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Rainforest

The atmospheric new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver

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 'Phenomenal. All of the stars... Easily my top read of the year so far' Reader Review, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Profoundly wonderful storytelling' Reader Review, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Incredible! Really was an experience like no other' Reader Review, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The jungle watches. The dead remember.

The virgin rainforest seems a paradise to Englishman Simon Corbett. A last chance to salvage his career. A final refuge from a terrible secret.

But the jungle is no Eden. It hides secrets of its own. It does not forgive.

As Simon is drawn deeper into its haunted shadows, he learns to his horror that the past will not stay buried. For there are places in the forest where the line between the living and the dead is thinner than the skin of water.

A terrifying supernatural tale from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver, author of Dark Matter, Thin Air and Wakenhyrst.

What readers are saying about Rainforest:

'Rarely have I finished reading a book, immediately returned to the first page and started reading again. Rainforest is utter brilliance.' Carly Reagon

'No one does terrifying like Michelle Paver.' Sharon Bolton

'Paver has proved once again that she is master of the ghost story. With its vivid, brilliantly realised setting and creeping dread, I found this a truly terrifying read.' Rebecca Netley

'Intoxicatingly weird...Takes a stalker story and makes it uniquely her own. She has cemented herself as our modern day MR James.. I can't wait to see what she does next!' Sarah Pinborough©2025 Michelle Paver Belletristik Fantasy Horror Psychologie Thriller Übernatürliches

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No one does creeping dread like Michelle Paver. With Rainforest, intoxicatingly weird and also prescient, she takes a stalker story and makes it uniquely her own. She has cemented herself as our modern day MR James and as her number one fan I can't wait to see what she does next!
A stunning tale of love, death and what comes after set against the sumptuous backdrop of the rainforest. Rarely have I finished reading a book, immediately returned to the first page and started reading again. Rainforest is utter brilliance.
No one does terrifying like Michelle Paver.
With her latest novel, Paver has proved once again that she is master of the ghost story. With its vivid, brilliantly realised setting and creeping dread, I found this a truly terrifying read.
Michelle Paver is best known as a children's author, chiefly for her wonderful Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, but she can turn a creepy, noirish ghost story for adults with the best. This is the tale of an English scientist in the rainforest in Mexico and his encounters with bloodthirsty spirits. As ever with Paver, this is based on thorough research into the terrain and the folklore of the story. Oh, it's got some nice mantids too.
Rainforest is a powerful and scary tale . . . freighted with unquiet spirits and hallucinatory potions and set at a time when white travellers had scant respect for either the terrain or the people who had lived in harmony with it for centuries . . . skilfully woven into a sumptuous and graphic evocation of the jungle in all its luxuriant and baleful glory, its beauty and its dangers, and the effect it can have on the imagination (Lynne Patrick)
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Die Autorin nimmt den Hörer in eine neue Welt mit und beschreibt den Regenwald mit seinen Pflanzen und Tieren in vielen Details. Inhaltlich steigert sie die Spannung gegen Ende fast ins Unerträgliche, als der Ich-Erzähler, Dr. Simon Corbett, im Regenwald verloren geht. Seine Obsession mit einer vergangenen Liebe, Penelope, wird in seinem Talisman, einer Haarsträne von ihr, überdeutlich. Die Gottesanbeterinnen, die er sucht und erforscht, erscheinen faszinierend.
Richard Armitage liest hier sehr tief. Da er ausschließlich Männerstimmen zu lesen hat, zeigt er seine Brillianz durch extrem spannendes und variantenreiches Vortragen. Bedrohliche Stellen kommen beim Hörer ebenso an wie die vor Liebe blinden Stellen, die er mitreißend und intensiv spricht.
Er ist auch hier wieder der beste aller Sprecher!

"How do I know I exist"?

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The story follows Simon Corbett, who, after a career-threatening event, takes a job in the Virgin rainforest to study mantids. Haunted by the incident involving a woman named Penelope, he writes down his thoughts, feelings and beliefs in diary form for his therapist. However, Simon feels compelled to participate in the excavations of a local professor, which robs him of time for his true passion. He is finding it frustrating that he is unable to locate many mantids in the rainforest. The Yachikel, who are Maya descendants, are helping out with the digs, but Simon's technique of smoking trees to find dead insects is a no-go because it not only keeps the mantids away, but also kills other forest creatures. Simon becomes increasingly fascinated by the shamanic practices of touching death. He hopes that this will allow him to finally leave his dark past behind.

Simon is not an easy character, but he is pitiful—despite his seemingly obsessive traits. Driven by the rejection of the woman he loves, he tries to find peace in the rainforest, to clear his mind and shed his feelings of guilt. He is willing to risk everything for this.

Richard Armitage is absolutely unbeatable, and his talent is undeniable.

Creepy and dark!

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