In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself fro[...]

Mervyn Peakes Gormenghast trilogy is widely acknowledged to be, as Robertson Davies pronounced, 3a classic of our age. In these extraordinary novels, Peake created a world where all is like a dream--lush, fantastical, and vivid. Yet it was incomplete. Parkinsons disease took Peakes life in 1968, dep[...]