![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, thanks to Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin, The Absolute Book has made it over to the UK. No, it’s an almost mythical yearning, as though, if only we can create the right conditions, a stranger might come out of the mist, thrust a sword into a stone and say, “Whosoever draws forth this blade…”Īnd now here he was, having returned from another world, with a much better understanding of the depth of his ignorance concerning what might be yearned for, and not be mythical.”Įlizabeth Knox’s The Absolute Book came out in New Zealand last year, and I have been desperate to read it ever since a Slate article talking about the book as a transformative work of modern fantasy went viral. It’s not just memories of busy shipyards and Grandad’s self-respect. “And it’s not just Murdoch and immigrants and implied promises about what might be done to save the NHS by the very people dismantling it. ![]()
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