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It is seven years after the first outbreak of "the Sweats" destroyed the world, almost overnight. Two refugees from the death and decay of London, Stevie Flint and Magnus McFall, have both washed up on the Orkney Islands. A rural community clinging to survival, the islands are home to a generation of youth who barely remember a time before the pandemic. One of them, Magnus' foster son, Shuggie, is fourteen years old and angry as hell: he and his young friends blame all adults for the loss of the technological and scientific wonders of the past.
When the foster parents of Shug's girlfriend, Misty, are found murdered and the young couple vanishes without a trace, Magnus fears the worst. Refusing to believe they could have committed the crime, and in order to find Shuggie and Misty before something terrible happens to them, Magnus and Stevie set off on a quest into the decaying city of Glasgow--and into the heart of a post-apocalyptic landscape they tried to leave behind when they fled the chaotic streets of London.
When the foster parents of Shug's girlfriend, Misty, are found murdered and the young couple vanishes without a trace, Magnus fears the worst. Refusing to believe they could have committed the crime, and in order to find Shuggie and Misty before something terrible happens to them, Magnus and Stevie set off on a quest into the decaying city of Glasgow--and into the heart of a post-apocalyptic landscape they tried to leave behind when they fled the chaotic streets of London.
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Praise for The Plague Times Trilogy
"Magnus and Jeb ride out of the city, and deep in the countryside discover a murder has occurred--straight from the pages of Agatha Christie . . . The plot gallops along while the writing crackles with the sights and smells of a sharply imagined world . . . Left me hungry for volume three." ""The Independent, "on "Death Is a Welcome Guest"
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"The second of Louise Welsh's "Plague Times "trilogy, set in a dystopian England ravaged by the Sweats pandemic, is as grippingly intelligent and atmospheric as the first . . . But the novel is far more than a modern-day plague-ridden whodunnit. The theme of justice and belief amid chaos is accompanied by superb dialogue and an overpowering mood of moral and medical decay." ""The Times, "on "Death Is a Welcome Guest"
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"""A bleak, no-holds-barred look at a rapidly disintegrating society, slipping inexorably back into the sort of devastation last seen in the 14th century, when the Black Death cut a swathe across Europe, leaving millions dead. Like the first in the trilogy, this book poses the question as to whether one more death amongst a host of others has any meaning . . . This is post-apocalyptic storytelling at its very best." ""Crime Review, "on "Death Is a Welcome Guest"
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Praise for The Plague Times Trilogy
"Magnus and Jeb ride out of the city, and deep in the countryside discover a murder has occurred--straight from the pages of Agatha Christie . . . The plot gallops along while the writing crackles with the sights and smells of a sharply imagined world . . . Left me hungry for volume three."--The Independent, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"[Louise Welsh] is indeed a canny writer . . . As for the Sweats, well, we are about to enter a drug-resistant era and the last Black Death episode in the UK was only in 1900. Food for thought while we await Book 3 with anticipation, fear and gleeful foreboding."--Bookbag, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"The second of Louise Welsh's Plague Times trilogy, set in a dystopian England ravaged by the Sweats pandemic, is as grippingly intelligent and atmospheric as the first . . . But the novel is far more than a modern-day plague-ridden whodunnit. The theme of justice and belief amid chaos is accompanied by superb dialogue and an overpowering mood of moral and medical decay."--The Times, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"Almost everything about this scenario is familiar, from the abandoned luxury hotels to the looped news bulletins on TV . . . But Welsh's writing is so effective that it was as if I were encountering these tropes again for the first time . . . Richly imagined and, in Welsh's hands, horribly plausible."--Crime Review, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"A bleak, no-holds-barred look at a rapidly disintegrating society, slipping inexorably back into the sort of devastation last seen in the 14th century, when the Black Death cut a swathe across Europe, leaving millions dead. Like the first in the trilogy, this book poses the question as to whether one more death amongst a host of others has any meaning . . . This is post-apocalyptic storytelling at its very best."--Crime Review, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
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"Magnus and Jeb ride out of the city, and deep in the countryside discover a murder has occurred--straight from the pages of Agatha Christie . . . The plot gallops along while the writing crackles with the sights and smells of a sharply imagined world . . . Left me hungry for volume three." ""The Independent, "on "Death Is a Welcome Guest"
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"The second of Louise Welsh's "Plague Times "trilogy, set in a dystopian England ravaged by the Sweats pandemic, is as grippingly intelligent and atmospheric as the first . . . But the novel is far more than a modern-day plague-ridden whodunnit. The theme of justice and belief amid chaos is accompanied by superb dialogue and an overpowering mood of moral and medical decay." ""The Times, "on "Death Is a Welcome Guest"
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"""A bleak, no-holds-barred look at a rapidly disintegrating society, slipping inexorably back into the sort of devastation last seen in the 14th century, when the Black Death cut a swathe across Europe, leaving millions dead. Like the first in the trilogy, this book poses the question as to whether one more death amongst a host of others has any meaning . . . This is post-apocalyptic storytelling at its very best." ""Crime Review, "on "Death Is a Welcome Guest"
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Praise for The Plague Times Trilogy
"Magnus and Jeb ride out of the city, and deep in the countryside discover a murder has occurred--straight from the pages of Agatha Christie . . . The plot gallops along while the writing crackles with the sights and smells of a sharply imagined world . . . Left me hungry for volume three."--The Independent, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"[Louise Welsh] is indeed a canny writer . . . As for the Sweats, well, we are about to enter a drug-resistant era and the last Black Death episode in the UK was only in 1900. Food for thought while we await Book 3 with anticipation, fear and gleeful foreboding."--Bookbag, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"The second of Louise Welsh's Plague Times trilogy, set in a dystopian England ravaged by the Sweats pandemic, is as grippingly intelligent and atmospheric as the first . . . But the novel is far more than a modern-day plague-ridden whodunnit. The theme of justice and belief amid chaos is accompanied by superb dialogue and an overpowering mood of moral and medical decay."--The Times, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"Almost everything about this scenario is familiar, from the abandoned luxury hotels to the looped news bulletins on TV . . . But Welsh's writing is so effective that it was as if I were encountering these tropes again for the first time . . . Richly imagined and, in Welsh's hands, horribly plausible."--Crime Review, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
"A bleak, no-holds-barred look at a rapidly disintegrating society, slipping inexorably back into the sort of devastation last seen in the 14th century, when the Black Death cut a swathe across Europe, leaving millions dead. Like the first in the trilogy, this book poses the question as to whether one more death amongst a host of others has any meaning . . . This is post-apocalyptic storytelling at its very best."--Crime Review, on Death Is a Welcome Guest
Louise Welsh is the author of five highly acclaimed novels including The Cutting Room and, most recently, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a Welcome Guest. She has been the recipient of several awards. No Dominion is the third novel in the Plague Times trilogy.
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- PublisherQuercus
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1681443260
- ISBN 13 9781681443263
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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