Andrew Pyper(1968-2025)

Andrew Pyper's fifth novel was titled The Guardians and was published in 2011 by Doubleday Canada, and Orion in the UK. It was translated and published in both Italy and the Netherlands. The Guardian called it: "a compelling and genuinely creepy read", and it was chosen A Best Book of the Year in the Dutch national newspaper NRC Handlesblad.

We are living in the Age of the Pitch. Impatience, restlessness, the side-effects of excessive cultural choice. We don't have 'time' for stories to warm up, for things to start getting interesting on page 146. We are fish willingly in search of the most seductive worm.