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The insect farm

Stuart Prebble

The insect farm

by Stuart Prebble

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Published by Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company in New York .
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    Subjects:
  • Murder,
  • Investigation,
  • Brothers,
  • Fiction

  • About the Edition

    When twenty-year-old Jonathan Maguire wakes up in a pool of blood and with a dead body beside him, his shock and grief quickly turn to panic. Being arrested for murder will prevent him from fulfilling the promise he made to his parents - that after their death he would take care of Roger, his mentally handicapped older brother. Roger lives in a strange and complex world of his own creation - populated by millions of tiny insects - his insect farm. As the police move in, it emerges that Roger may know far more than he has revealed...

    Edition Notes

    StatementStuart Prebble
    The Physical Object
    Pagination311 p.
    Number of Pages311
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL27187404M
    ISBN 100316337366
    ISBN 109780316337366
    LC Control Number2015935823
    OCLC/WorldCa910566337

    The Insect Farm is a dramatic psychological thriller about the secrets we keep from those we love most and the extent to which the people closest to us are also the most unknowable. In his astounding debut, Stuart Prebble guides us through haunting twists and jolting discoveries as a startling picture emerges: One of the Maguire brothers is a. More on Farm Insect City Utopia: Inside the 'Cricket Reactor' Jakub Dzamba did not stop at a consumer-friendly countertop farm, but has imagined whole urban landscapes that have the mass production of edible insects built in to their fabric, with heat, warmth, waste and sustainability all addressed.

    Minimize insect damage with wise soil management and identify beneficial insects to put these “good bugs” to work for you. Examples of successful pest management strategies sprinkled throughout the book will stimulate your imagination to develop a more complex, more diverse ecosystem on your farm. About the Book The Insect Farm. by Stuart Prebble. An eerie debut suspense novel that explores how little one man may know his own brother and his own mind. The Maguire brothers each have their own driving, single-minded obsession. For Jonathan, it is his magnificent, talented and desirable wife, Harriet. For Roger, it is the elaborate.

    Original Publish Date: eBook. Product Number: EB The Insect Farm (Book): Prebble, Stuart: When twenty-year-old Jonathan Maguire wakes up in a pool of blood and with a dead body beside him, his shock and grief quickly turn to panic. Being arrested for murder will prevent him from fulfilling the promise he made to his parents - that after their death he would take care of Roger, his mentally handicapped older brother.


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As an adolescent, Roger developed an interest in bugs that grew into an obsession when his parents allowed him to build the titular insect farm in the family’s garden shed.

The insect farm provides companionship for Roger when his brother is in school and, later, when Jonathan meets the love of his life, flautist Harriet Chalfont.

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