Angelmaker

Angelmaker is another cracking book from Nick Harkaway. It’s a mix of sci-fi, steampunk, adventure and romance and the mix of genres work really well together … Harkaway’s Angelmaker is a brilliant piece of escapism. It’s a wonderful example of how an irreverent approach to much loved genres can lead to a truly great story. * Nudge *Splendid cornucopia of a novel * The Big Issue (Wales) *Nick Harkaway’s joyfully reckless invention is as intricate as clockwork … Edie has a tangled history, the uncovering of which is one of the chief pleasures of Nick Harkaway’s novel … is one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in ages … brilliantly entertaining, and the last hundred pages are pure, unhinged delight. What a splendid ride. – Patrick Ness * Guardian *What kind of a mind dreams up Angelmaker … It could only be Nick Harkaway: bonkers, brilliant and hilarious … clever and entirely fantastic. * Sunday Times *An entertaining tour-de-force that demands to be adored. * Independent on Sunday *A puzzle box of a novel as fascinating as the clockwork bees it contains. – Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night CircusWildly imaginative novel is enough to tie the brain in knots; it’s a comedy, a thriller, a crazy fantasy … Harkaway has created a wonderfully entertaining, unguessable kaleidoscope of a novel. – Kate Saunders * The Times *This brilliant, boundless mad genius of a book runs on its own frenetic energy, and bursts with infinite wit, inventive ambition and damn fine storytelling. You finish reading it in gape-mouthed awe and breathless admiration, having experienced something very special indeed. – Matt Haig, author of The RadleysAnother fizzingly imaginative melodrama…A wildly, irrepressibly exuberant new-weird/ fantasy/ thriller /comedy. * Daily Mail *It’s an ambitious, crowded, restless caper, cleverly told and utterly immune to precis…[Makes] Don Quixote look sedentary … a very timely novel about belatedness…Joe is in one sense a 21st-century everyman, indebted to a previous generation, disenfranchised by a conspiratorial state… Angelmaker turns out to be a solid work of modern fantasy fiction, coupling credit-crunch anxiety with an understandable nostalgia for the mythical days of “good, wholesome, old-fashioned British crime”. – James Purdon * Observer *

Nick Harkaway is the acclaimed author of Gnomon, The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Titanium Noir, and Karla’s Choice. He is the son of John le Carré, and possesses a unique insight into his father’s work. The Guardian writes of Harkaway that “his great gift as a novelist is to merge the pace, wit and clarity of the best ‘popular’ literature with the ambition, complexity and irony of the so-called ‘literary novel’ - a rare combination which le Carré himself also achieved.” He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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