Prizewinner in New Welsh Writing Awards 2021 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting.
'Festival of the Ghost is about the ties that bond us; to history, to each other, shared trauma, the familial. Both an acute exploration of how the events of the past are “all around us”, imprinted into the fabric of time and space, as well as the relationship between a grieving brother and his late sister. Courageous, daring, humorous and deeply human.' – Joshua Jones
'Without doubt a future classic, Festival of the Ghost is a simply unputdownable novel from a true literary talent in João Morais.' – Richard Owain Roberts
‘Compelling... humorous and tightly plotted, with a superb sense of urban space’ – Gwen Davies, adjudication, New Welsh Writing Awards 2021
A grief-stricken, obsessive-compulsive young man discovers he can witness the events of the past. While searching for his recently deceased sister’s thesis, he strives to avoid the attention of its subject, a religious sect devoted to the memory of a serial killer.
Set in contemporary Cardiff, this diverse, pacey, high-concept time-warp crime novella explores themes of violence, ritual and alternative realities, while it seeks to honour the victims of serial killers and challenge the way that some have become part of the tourism industry.
