The H-index

We will be publishing a new novel, The H-index: An Academic Horror, in the summer. By Cardiff based author Martin Weller, the book is the second in the Cursed Coast series.

In The H-index, five academics arrive at a remote Welsh farm for a month long writing retreat. This is their opportunity to launch, or relaunch, careers with the publication that will earn them status. What they find instead of creative solitude is Storm Aurora, a restored wetland that shouldn’t have been disturbed, and something ancient rising from the peat that has been waiting for exactly this confluence of conditions. As the coast road floods and the power fails, the group discovers that their h-indices, their methodologies, and their carefully constructed academic identities count for nothing against something that has been here far longer than any institution. The H-Index is literary horror at its sharpest — a darkly comic, genuinely terrifying novel about five scholars who came to write about the world and instead find themselves fighting to stay in it.