China Mieville

• China Mieville Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy) Mervyn Peake   Somehow this manages to be both rich and austere at the same time - the sense is of vastness, but of unbearable claustrophobia, too. The egregious BBC adaptation turned it into an Augustan costume romp and stripped out all the shadows and all the dust. Philistines.

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