{"title":"Mervyn Peake","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-gormenghast-trilogy","title":"The Gormenghast Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSYNOPSIS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eENTER THE CRUMBLING WORLD OF GORMENGHAST\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53999590113563,"sku":"9780099288893","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/2533\/7627\/files\/9780099288893.jpg?v=1790171474"},{"product_id":"titus-groan","title":"Titus Groan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSYNOPSIS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the vast halls of Gormenghast, the birth of an heir awakens old rivalries. Gormenghast rises in stone and shadow: an immense, decaying castle where every life is shaped by ritual. BOOK ONE OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone, hidden rooms and ancient observances that make up Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by complex ritual, lost in history and understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. Yet beneath the castle’s umbrageous ceilings, order is already beginning to crack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are tears and strange laughter, fierce births and deaths, dreams and violence, disenchantment and ambition. Among the servants is Steerpike, a sharp, resentful kitchen boy whose intelligence will take him far beyond his station. While Titus is passed from rite to rite, Steerpike watches, listens and begins to climb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitus Groan is a classic Gothic fantasy about ritual, ambition and inheritance, set in a castle where the old order is beginning to give way from within. 'A gorgeous volcanic eruption... 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Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54035804356891,"sku":"9780749394820","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/2533\/7627\/files\/9780749394820_bf0c7154-b015-458f-9f71-f4e4b591e276.jpg?v=1790275292"},{"product_id":"titus-alone","title":"Titus Alone","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSYNOPSIS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDISCOVER THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitus Groan, now almost twenty, escapes from Castle Gormenghast, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real. '[The Gormenghast Trilogy] is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of the age that also produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and 1984.' 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