The Thief, Claire North
The Thief, Claire North
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The Thief
Gameshouse Novella 2

Author: Claire North

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Unabridged: 3 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 11/03/2015

Synopsis

The Gameshouse is an unusual institution.

Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost through games of chess, backgammon -- every game under the sun.

But a select few, who are picked to compete in the higher league, know that some games are played for higher stakes -- those of politics and empires, of economics and kings . . .

In 1930s Bangkok, one higher league player has just been challenged to a game of hide and seek. The board is all of Thailand -- and the seeker may use any means possible to hunt down his quarry -- be it police, government, strangers or even spies . . .

About Claire North

Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, who wrote several novels in various genres before publishing her first major work as Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It was a critically acclaimed success, receiving rave reviews and becoming a word-of-mouth bestseller. She has since published several hugely popular and critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. She lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on March 07, 2025

We (the readers) see Abhik Lee pacing up and down before the silver doors of the Gameshouse. How did this house come to be here? We have seen these doors in Venice and London, Paris and New York, Tokyo and Beijing, always the same doors with the lion’s head roaring from the metalwork, and yet wherev......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on February 11, 2019

The Thief by Claire North is the second novella in the Gamehouse trilogy, and it tops The Serpent.  Set in the 1930s Thailand, The Thief follows Remy Burke - a veteran player of the Gameshouse. One night he gets drunk and makes a risky bet – he wagers his memories against 20 years of his challenger’s......more

Goodreads review by Alissa on January 05, 2018

Watcher and reader take again part in a high-stake game of uneven balance, this time in a a hide-and-seek race across Thailand. There are more details about the Gameshouse, the higher-league players, the played-upon, and the mysterious narrator. We follow Remy, a British with a code and every disadv......more

Quotes

"An astonishing re-invention of the time travel narrative. Bold, magical and masterful."—Mike Carey, on The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

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