Different front cover.

Another for my John Wyndham Year. Picked up secondhand in Halstead - quite unexpected after looking for months!

This copy is now reserved in case MoleKilby's bookring copy goes missing.

See my review here.

Update Dec 2010... MoleKilby's bookring going really well so now making this book AVL.

Releasing at the first meet of 2011. Will be left on the shelf if no takers.

I recently read Day of the Triffids, so HAD to pick this one up, even though it is against my getting new book until I read up Mount TBR policy :( Luckily it is a thin one ;)

I have finished this, will add my thoughts in a mo.
Given to a colleague.

I picked this up at a Bookcrossing meetup after having read two of Wyndham's other books - Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos.

Narrated by Delgrange, a man who deals with the loss of his family by signing up for a new project. A man looking to leave a legacy behind him buys up an island in the Pacific where a group would start a colony, ushering a new society.

Unbeknown to these pioneers, Tanakuatua is no normal island, years before it had been evacuated before nuclear weapon testing. An islander placed the island under a curse, a taboo, meaning no one has been back in a while. Even as they approach Tanakuatua, there is something off about it. There are no birds flying and there is a mysterious white cloud on its peak. It seems the island is home to rather unusual spiders.

Not in the same league as the previously mentioned books, but Wyndham poses important questions, such as man versus nature, man as the chosen species, or rather the current leading species.