Share
Imprint
- Hodder Paperbacks
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Hodder & Stoughton
Narrator
Will PattonRuntime
18hr 32m
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense, Horror & ghost stories
-
Imprint
Hodder Paperbacks
- Paperback May 27, 2014 | 9781444761184 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 24, 2013 | 9781444761207 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 24, 2013 | 9781444761191 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00 -
Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback May 27, 2014 | 9781444761184 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 24, 2013 | 9781444761207 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 24, 2013 | 9781444761191 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00 -
Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback May 27, 2014 | 9781444761184 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 24, 2013 | 9781444761207 | RRP $57.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 24, 2013 | 9781444761191 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining.
Doctor Sleep is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a group of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.'
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival...
Praise for Doctor Sleep: a chilling classic from the No. 1 bestseller
-
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
Discover more
Stephen King
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include Fairy Tale, Holly, and If It Bleeds, all number one Sunday Times bestsellers.
Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.
King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Find a book you’ll love, get our Word Up newsletter!
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past and present Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Our head office is located on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
