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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 [...]