My first novel, The Dark Between The Trees, is available now from Solaris Books.
In 1643, at the height of the first English Civil War, a group of seventeen soldiers are chased into remote Moresby Wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell make no sense: stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will… and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry.
Today, a small group of researchers enters the wood, hoping to discover once and for all what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers. But Moresby Wood has kept its secrets for centuries, and it’s not giving them up so easily…
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Named a Best Horror Book of 2022 by Esquire
‘Barnett’s grasp of ineffable oddness would make Algernon Blackwood proud.’ – The Guardian
‘An impressive debut’ – The FT
‘An unsettling and compelling folk horror.’ – SFX
‘Blimey, this was creepy as hell!’ – Claire North, author of Ithaca
‘Haunting and heart-stopping. The Dark Between the Trees marks the arrival of a bold new voice in British horror.’ – MR Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts
‘Superbly tense.’ – Adam Roberts, author of The This
‘Fantastically written and darkly mesmerising.’ – Marianne Gordon
‘An assured, masterful slice of folk-horror strangeness.’ – Simon Bestwick, author of Black Mountain
‘Surreal and haunting’ – Booklist
‘Uniquely captivating’ – Library Journal
‘An ambitious exercise on timelines and genres’ – Aurealis
‘This novel is uncomfortable, phantasmagorical’ – The Fantasy Hive
‘The perfect spooky and eerie read for anyone looking for a gothic folk story with incredible ambience’ – FanFiAddict
‘A deeply enjoyable horror tale’ – Runalong The Shelves