Rainforest

The atmospheric new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver

By: Michelle Paver

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Paperback | 10 September 2026 | Edition Number 1

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'Michelle is such a brilliant writer, and an absolute master of the genre!' Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding

ENTER - AND YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME

Mexico, 1973

Simon Corbett has come to the jungle the way people do: to salvage a ruined career, and outrun a past he cannot face.

But the forest is no refuge.

As he ventures deeper, his days lose their edges. Footsteps follow that leave no trace. The path he cuts disappears behind him.

Something is leading him off course. It's older than the trees, watching, and hungry.

He came to the jungle to lose himself.

He may get his wish.

A terrifying supernatural tale from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver, author of Dark Matter, Thin Air and Wakenhyrst.

Praise for Rainforest:
'Her most unsettling novel yet!' Olivia Isaac-Henry
'Michelle Paver at her terrifying best. A novel of masterful suspense and slow-burning horror' Elaine Thomson
'Phenomenal. All of the stars... Easily my top read of the year so far' 5-star Reader Review
'The malicious uncanny slithers through the story' Natasha Pulley
'Intoxicatingly weird...Takes a stalker story and makes it uniquely her own. She has cemented herself as our modern day MR James.. I can't wait to see what she does next!' Sarah Pinborough
'Profoundly wonderful storytelling' 5-star Reader Review
'Rarely have I finished reading a book, immediately returned to the first page and started reading again. Rainforest is utter brilliance' Carly Reagon
'No one does terrifying like Michelle Paver' Sharon Bolton
'Incredible! Really was an experience like no other' 5-star Reader Review
'Paver has proved once again that she is master of the ghost story. With its vivid, brilliantly realised setting and creeping dread, I found this a truly terrifying read' Rebecca Netley

Industry Reviews

No one does creeping dread like Michelle Paver. With Rainforest, intoxicatingly weird and also prescient, she takes a stalker story and makes it uniquely her own. She has cemented herself as our modern day MR James and as her number one fan I can't wait to see what she does next! - Sarah Pinborough

A stunning tale of love, death and what comes after set against the sumptuous backdrop of the rainforest. Rarely have I finished reading a book, immediately returned to the first page and started reading again. Rainforest is utter brilliance. - Carly Reagon

No one does terrifying like Michelle Paver. - Sharon Bolton

With her latest novel, Paver has proved once again that she is master of the ghost story. With its vivid, brilliantly realised setting and creeping dread, I found this a truly terrifying read. - Rebecca Netley

Michelle Paver is best known as a children's author, chiefly for her wonderful Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, but she can turn a creepy, noirish ghost story for adults with the best. This is the tale of an English scientist in the rainforest in Mexico and his encounters with bloodthirsty spirits. As ever with Paver, this is based on thorough research into the terrain and the folklore of the story. Oh, it's got some nice mantids too. - Standard

Rainforest is a powerful and scary tale . . . freighted with unquiet spirits and hallucinatory potions and set at a time when white travellers had scant respect for either the terrain or the people who had lived in harmony with it for centuries . . . skilfully woven into a sumptuous and graphic evocation of the jungle in all its luxuriant and baleful glory, its beauty and its dangers, and the effect it can have on the imagination - Mystery People

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