Dedalus
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
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This is one of a series of books that Dedalus are reissuing in a “Hall of Fame” series to mark their 30th anniversary. ...Read Review
Barbara
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Barbara is the only novel by Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen. Set in the 1700s and originally written in Danish, the manuscript was left behind on ...Read Review
The Secret Knowledge
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Whether this qualifies as historical fiction is a moot point: it’s set in multiple pasts, multiverses, spanning the 20th century, from 1913 Paris ...Read Review
The Mussolini Canal
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Many dictators from Nero to Napoleon had set out to drain the Italy’s malarial Pontine Marshes, but it was Mussolini who finally ...Read Review
Saturn
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This novel is a fictionalised version of the personal life of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It is told through three narrators: ...Read Review
The Lairds of Cromarty
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Some books are a real surprise, and this is one of them. What is at heart a detective story becomes in turn a ...Read Review
The Khalifah’s Mirror
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This is a sequel to The Father of Locks (HNR 48 , p. 24). Abu Nuwas the poet, also known as Father of Locks for the ...Read Review
The Good Hope
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William Heinesen was a native of the Faeroe Islands – where this book is set – although he wrote in Danish. He was renowned as ...Read Review
The Ballad of John Clare
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Very little is known about the early life of John Clare, the ‘peasant poet’ who was a contemporary of Keats and Shelley. But ...Read Review
Mappamundi
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In the Italian city of Ancona in 1464, Pope Pius II dies. His mostly loyal English servant Thomas Deerham uses this as an ...Read Review
