Sentence examples for unsettling books from inspiring English sources

Muriel Spark's Edinburgh, Peckham and Kensington are specific and detailed right down to the bus routes, yet one of her most brilliant and unsettling books, The Driver's Seat, follows her central character from the "north" on a holiday to a kind of generalised "southern" every-city.

Told from the POV of a small town sheriff who is slowly succumbing to mental illness and an unquenchable thirst to kill, it's one of the most unsettling books ever written.

It was an unsettling book that arrived, as if on cue, at an unsettled time.

"As a Friend" is an unsettling book, haunting and haunted.

So this quirky, occasionally unsettling book goes on, never short of new ideas, all of them rolled out with style.

It's an unsettling book, from the first page showing Steinberg's fierce will to survive.

What is one to make of this odd and unsettling book?

Four years and a few life-changes later she is back with Once Upon a Time in England (Canongate, £14.99) – a very different but equally unsettling book.

The result is a sharp, unsettling book that invokes a number of rich tales without exploring them directly.

The strapline on the cover reads: "Every killer has to start somewhere," but it's hard to know where to begin a review of this unsettling book.

But in adapting Jackson's unsettling book for the stage, the playwright Adam Bock and the composer Todd Almond have thrown open the shutters and let in the sunshine.