Name: Titus Awakes
ISBN: 9781590204283

Mervyn Peake

Maeve Gilmore

A final volume of the classic Gormenghast novels, produced from recently discovered manuscripts written by his wife and based on Peake's outlines, follows Titus's nightmarish departure from Castle Gormenghast. 20,000 first printing.

Titus Awakes

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past. Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but he died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the painter and writer Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.

Titus Awakes

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