About the Author

Ivo Stourton was born in 1982 and graduated from Cambridge with a double first in English. He is the son of Radio Four Today presenter Ed Stourton. He is at work on his second novel, a page-turning gothic thriller.

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THE NIGHT CLIMBERS

A BLACK SWAN BOOK: 9780552773836
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN: 9781407038599

First published in Great Britain

Doubleday edition published 2007

Black Swan edition published 2008

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