FREE Sample Chapters of The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts

I always think it rather unfair to ask people to buy my fiction without actually providing a reasonable sample to get their teeth into. In bookshops, of course, the book can be lifted off the shelf and the first few pages, at least, read – but on the Internet, it isn't always as simple as that.

With my latest novel, The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts (now available for pre-order) I have therefore decided to try something quite new. Instead of simply placing the samples on my website, as I have in the past, I wanted to try to give a little something back in the process and, yes, also generate a little additional interest.

So this is the deal and how it works: I'm offering all those interested THREE FREE SAMPLE CHAPTERS of The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts – delivered directly to their e-mail inboxes. Each sample sent out will include a personalised message from me ON THE SAMPLE ITSELF and will have a unique number.

In order to qualify for this, all you have to do is forward this e-mail to at least five people who you think might be interested in receiving samples themselves – making sure that you also send the e-mail, with the recipients visible, to me. (So that means you will actually be sending it to 6 people – your five friends and gary@garymurning.com .) This offer, of course, applies to EVERYONE WHO RECEIVES THIS E-MAIL. If it's been forwarded to you and you do indeed want your free samples, simply follow the instructions.

I could make things right again…

For Sonny Moore, writer and family man, chance discovery and the force of untethered past are about to impact on his life in ways both unimaginable and profound. Faced with events he cannot explain, and those he does not even wish to contemplate, his world and the worlds of those closest to him spiral down into a realm of need and hurt, where ghosts walk – and occasionally resemble those closest to him.

"A book that refuses to be comfortably straight-jacketed into one genre, The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts takes the reader into a complex supernatural thriller that, at its heart, reveals a satisfying, thoughtful literary novel. Murning is a storyteller from the old school, where language and character are paramount, and the cast of characters take us from past to present, through love, suspicion and finally to resolution. Lyrical and thought-provoking, this is a novel to be savoured."
Ruth Dugdall – author of The Woman Before Me and The Sacrificial Man.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Your patience is, as ever, appreciated and I look forward to sending out your FREE SAMPLE CHAPTERS.

Gary