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Review by Ollie Wright
These books, like the castle they describe, are massive and uncompromising, ornately, obsessively detailed, with everything minutely and exactly described.  Mervyn Peake’s fine draughtsmanship is mirrored in his prose; he has clearly visualised every aspect of his Gormenghast, the place and its denizens.
The first volume, Titus Groan, follows the [...]