Published in 2014 (first published 1993)
320 pages
Anne Billson is a film critic, novelist, photographer, style icon, wicked spinster, evil feminist, and international cat-sitter who has lived in London, Tokyo, Paris and Croydon, and now lives in Brussels. She likes frites, beer and chocolate.
Her books include Suckers (an upwardly mobile vampire novel), Stiff Lips (a Notting Hill ghost story), The Ex (a supernatural detective story) and The Coming Thing (Rosemary’s Baby meets Bridget Jones) as well as several works of non-fiction, including Billson Film Database, Breast Man: A Conversation With Russ Meyer, and monographs on the films The Thing and Let The Right One In. Her latest book is Cats On Film, the definitive work of feline film scholarship.
She sometimes writes about film for the Guardian, and is currently working on a screenplay and a sequel to her vampire novel, Suckers. She has three blogs: multiglom.com (the Billson Blog), catsonfilm.net (a blog about cats in the cinema), and lempiredeslumieres.com (photographs of Belgian beer, bars and sunsets).
What is this book about?
Everywhere you looked, there would be women dressed in black – white faces, black hair, mouths painted scarlet. It was The Look. You saw it on the street. You saw it on the covers of magazines. You saw it presenting arts programmes on TV.
And some of us saw it in our nightmares…
Anne Billson’s debut novel, described by Christopher Fowler in Time Out as “dark, sharp, chic and very funny”, is set at the end of the greed is good era, and features a gothic love triangle between a man, a woman and the 300-year-old vampire they chopped into pieces a decade earlier.
But now she’s back, and this time she’s building a bloodsucking empire…
