From the prize-winning author of }The Wake{, comes the second title in Kingsnorth's trilogy. 'To read }Beast{ is a joy' }Guardian What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back . . . Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man living alone on a west-country moor. A creature that will become an obsession .