The House on the Strand
On sale
2nd April 2026
Price: £10.99
FROM THE BESTSELLING WRITER OF REBECCA
‘Electric . . . a compelling thriller’ BRIDGET COLLINS
‘The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier’ NEW YORK TIMES
I realized at that moment, more strongly than hitherto, how fantastic, even macabre, was my presence amongst them, unseen, unborn, a freak in time, witness to events that had happened centuries past . . .
When an old friend, Professor Magnus Lane, offers him his home in Cornwall for the summer, Dick Young is relieved to escape his troubles. But Kilmarth and its owner are concealing a secret: Magnus has been experimenting with a new drug that allows the user to slip back in time. Transported back to the fourteenth-century, Dick becomes an invisible witness to a history of intrigue, adultery and murder.
But with each dose of the drug, his addiction to the other world grows stronger – and his estrangement from reality ever more dangerous.
Du Maurier’s striking novel weaves together past and present into an addictive time-slip thriller.
‘The master of slow-burning menace’ STACEY HALLS
‘No writer has conveyed the sheer strangeness of being human as well as du Maurier’ ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY
‘Electric . . . a compelling thriller’ BRIDGET COLLINS
‘The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier’ NEW YORK TIMES
I realized at that moment, more strongly than hitherto, how fantastic, even macabre, was my presence amongst them, unseen, unborn, a freak in time, witness to events that had happened centuries past . . .
When an old friend, Professor Magnus Lane, offers him his home in Cornwall for the summer, Dick Young is relieved to escape his troubles. But Kilmarth and its owner are concealing a secret: Magnus has been experimenting with a new drug that allows the user to slip back in time. Transported back to the fourteenth-century, Dick becomes an invisible witness to a history of intrigue, adultery and murder.
But with each dose of the drug, his addiction to the other world grows stronger – and his estrangement from reality ever more dangerous.
Du Maurier’s striking novel weaves together past and present into an addictive time-slip thriller.
‘The master of slow-burning menace’ STACEY HALLS
‘No writer has conveyed the sheer strangeness of being human as well as du Maurier’ ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY
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Reviews
The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier . . . She holds her characters close to reality; the past she creates is valid, hand her skill in finessing the time shifts is enough to make one want to try a little of the brew himself'
No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification ... She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of "real literature", something very few novelists ever do
Historical science-fiction with heightened emotional drama, a very Oultander-like novel, if you will
She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality
The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier. . . . She holds her characters close to reality; the past she creates is valid, and her skill in finessing the time shifts is enough to make one want to try a little of the brew himself
A compelling thriller . . . The interface between the two eras, the seductive danger and adventure of moving from one to the other, and finally the sense of the ground giving way beneath the narrator's feet . . . feels electric
