Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humour China Mieville Challenging, intelligent and downright fun Guardian There are touches of Borges and Nabokov as well as H. P. Lovecraft in this tale of changing fortunes and shifting relationships ... atmospheric The Times Five stars ... from an author who should be turning heads in the 'serious' literary world BBC Focus Magazine

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and multiple year's best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and theGuardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.