currently reading: titus groan
Totally fascinating. Written by Mervyn Peake who was himself quite fascinating: a brilliant writer and artist who died prematurely of Parkinson’s disease, with many ideas yet to be reduced to written form. So far the book is something akin to what you would get if Dickens wrote a fantasy novel.
Heh – I was in an epic production of Gormenghast many years ago – it included Titus Groan as an introduction … I think it went for 3 or 4 hours, or something horrendous. I recommend it as a book (not as a play – we got terrible reviews).