Donde Mueren Las Bestias

Cumbria, 2001. In the dark days of the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, as the flames of the extermination pyres blacken the hills of northern England, Steve Elliman returns to work on his father's farm. In this devastated landscape, he encounters William Herne, a brutal, intimidating, and aggressive farmer, who drags him into a murky world of sheep theft, underground fights, and murders in the fog. Together, they establish a kind of savage commune that soon becomes an outlaw gang, a new way of life where grueling physical labor and the instinct for survival replace any ethics. With raw and powerful prose, Scott Preston narrates a rural British western, imbued with relentless lyricism, where crime sprouts from the ground like a plague. A furious novel about masculinity and about the land as a blind force, battling those who try to subdue it. A novel of mud, blood, and silence, where the crime isn't solved, it lingers. And where redemption doesn't consist of returning, but of staying no matter what.

Scott Preston es originario de Windermere, situada en el condado de Cumbria dentro del parque nacional Lake District, donde su padre era constructor de muros de piedra seca y sus abuelos eran guardas del parque nacional, Estudió Filosofía en la universidad de Sheffield antes de trabajar como redactor publicitario, Se graduó en el programa de Escritura Creativa de la universidad de Manchester y obtuvo un doctorado en prosa de ficción por el King's College de Londres, Donde mueren las bestias (2024; Impedimenta, 2026) es su debut literario, por el que fue finalista del premio Charlotte Aitken al joven escritor del año del Sunday Times,