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Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, Riddley Walker is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. Desolate, dangerous and harrowing, it is a modern masterpiece.
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‘Unputdownable, moving, ingenious... it will remain in my head with troubling images and scenes for a long time’ A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052. In the black sparkle of deep space a figure in a blue overall tumbles over and over, drifting … No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can’t be alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanker Clever Daughter disappears. And everyone, including Fremder himself, would like to know how he did it.
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Jonathan Fitch is distraught when his girlfriend, Serafina, leaves him. And so desperate, in fact, that when the peculiar Mr Rinyo-Clacton makes him an offer of one million pounds with only one year to live, he agrees to the proposal. But soon both Fitch and Serafina find themselves embroiled in Rinyo-Clacton’s strange, sadistic games and Fitch begins to wonder quite what it is that he has agreed to …
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He climbs a ladder to reach another man’s wife and gives himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired to shed the blood of Jews. Alone, mutilated and unmanned, he cries out to God. Through time and war and Death itself, he makes his way to Jerusalem, struggling to find God in the horror that surrounds him.
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The first time Peter saw Amaryllis was in a dream. She was at a bus stop where the street sign said Balsamic, although there was nothing vinegary about the place. The bus was unthinkably tall, lit from within like a Japanese lantern. ‘Trust me, I’m a weirdo,’ says Amaryllis as she and Peter embark on their nocturnal experimentation, which leaves no one on quite the same footing with reality …
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By the Same Author
NOVELS
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Kleinzeit
Turtle Diary
Riddley Walker
Pilgermann
The Medusa Frequency
Fremder
Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
Angelica’s Grotto
Amaryllis Night and Day
The Bat Tattoo
Her Name Was Lola
Come Dance With Me
Linger Awhile
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi
Angelica Lost and Found
POETRY
The Pedalling Man
The Last of the Wallendas and Other Poems
COLLECTIONS
The Moment Under the moment
FOR CHILDREN
The Mouse and His Child
The Frances Books
The Trokeville Way
First published in Great Britain 2003
This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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‘If You Go Away’ English words by Rod McKuen © 1975 Warner
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Reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd.
‘Lola’ by Ray Davies © 1970 Davray Music Ltd and Carlin Music Corp,
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Excerpts from Buddhist Wisdom Books are translated by Edward
Conze and reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers
Excerpt from My Antonia by Willa Cather (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995)
The lines Max sings on page 19 are from ‘Copacabana’ by Barry Manilow
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The lines Geoffrey sings on pages 186-187 are from ‘Lola’ by The Kinks
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Excerpts from The I Ching are from the Richard Wilhelm translation,
translated into English by Cary F Baynes (Arkana, 1989) copyright © 1950
and 1967 by Bollingen Foundation Inc.
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