Earwig

by Brian Catling

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Now adapted into a film & the winner of the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastián International Film Festival

A standalone novel by iconic artist and author of cult bestseller, The Vorrh


Not since Edgar Allan Poe and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita has there been such a masterly tale of feline evil.

Earwig got his nickname from his grandfather.

At the start of this story he is employed to look after a strange little girl in a flat in Liege. He spies on her, listens to her by holding a glass up to the wall.

But he never touches her except when, as part of his duties, he is required to make teeth of ice and insert them in her gums.

Earwig takes a rare day off, which he spends drinking by himself in Au Metro, a seedy bar full of drunks, dancers and eccentrics. It is St Martin's day and in the evening as crowds parade through the street carrying lanterns through the snow, he is drawn reluctantly into a conversation with a sinister stranger called Tyre. As a result Earwig accidentally maims a waitress with a broken bottle. He understands that on some level Tyre meant this to happen.

Shortly afterwards a black cat is delivered to the flat, unasked for. The girl forms an immediate bond with it, but Earwig identifies it as the enemy.

Travelling across country by train, transporting the girl and her black cat, Earwig is increasingly caught up in a web of unfortunate and increasingly violent coincidences.

  • ISBN10 1473687101
  • ISBN13 9781473687103
  • Publish Date 5 September 2019
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 October 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Coronet Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 160
  • Language English