Doctor Sleep

King is a very remarkable and singular writer. He can catch dialogue, throw away an observation or mint a simile, sometimes, brilliantly…Storytelling is everything - and by golly does he know how to carry the reader. - Observer

Doctor Sleep is King expertly returning to the milieu of his most beloved novels, combining not just elements from the original Shining but themes and imagery familiar from King’s books, including Carrie, Salem’s Lot, Firestarter and It. It also has a structure King has often utilised before, with a group of essentially good people having to band against a gang of baddies but within this structure King works masterful variations, showing just with a brilliant storyteller he is. When King is on form, as he is in Doctor Sleep, he has no rivals for sheer page-turning suspense. It is as addictive as anything he has written: a triumph from the world’s finest horror novelist. - Sunday Express

It’s a gripping, powerful novel, all the more so for being patently heartfelt. - Financial Times

King finds a mode of the supernatural that has a melancholic beauty while avoiding spiritualist blather - Guardian

Doctor Sleep is a warm, entertaining novel by a man who is no longer the prisoner of his demons, but knows where to find them when he needs to call on them. - Daily Telegraph

Thirty-six years on from his horror classic, THE SHINING, Stephen King’s sequel shows he still has plenty of creative steam. - The Sunday Times

King has written a sequel, the tale of what happened to little Danny when he grew up. Need one say more? It cannot fail…the best thing to emerge from King’s glittering, warped imagination is of mundane, small-town America corrupted by hidden forces…you cannot but respect his ruthless expertise as a storyteller…even those of us who would never freely pick up a Stephen King must genuflect to a master. - The Times

Stephen King’s frightscapes are among the most incredible in literature, yet one believes in them unquestioningly. - Spectator

Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than 50 books. His recent work includes Doctor Sleep and Under the Dome, now a major TV series. His novel 11.22.63 won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association.

Many of his books have been turned into celebrated films including Misery, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine, USA.