The Carp Castle
$34.60
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2025
Summary
MacDonald Harris’s posthumously published novel is set in the 1920s against a backdrop of airships, mysticism, erotic love, and a Europe that is picking itself up after WW1.
The League of Nations is a giant airship constructed by the same factory in Germany that made the Zeppelins, and is owned by Moira, the leader of a semi-religious cult. The captain is Georg von Plautus, a Prussian WW1 Zeppelin commander who harbors a terrible secret from a bombing raid over London in 1916. Moira’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915530998 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915530997 |
| Author: | MacDonald Harris |
| Publisher: | Galileo Publishers |
| Imprint: | Galileo Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 281g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 140mm x 51mm |
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Critics Review
“Harris weaves a magical web of words in his narrative of mysticism, seances and a dirigible named The League of Nations…The action is inspired and written in undeniably gorgeous prose.” -Kirkus Reviews“It’s a delight. It could be by no-one else–the combination of effortless technical detail and delicate emotional perception is utterly MacDonald Harris, and so is his sense, marvellously deployed here, of the simultaneous tenderness and absurdity of love. His sympathy for such a range of characters in their crazinesses, their various kinds of loneliness, their sheer comedy is wonderful. I think it’s one of his very best; what a pity he didn’t live to see it published.” -Philip Pullman“There can no longer be any question whatever that McDonald Harris is one of our major novelists.” -Los Angeles Times Book Review
About The Author
MacDonald Harris
MacDonald Harris was the pseudonym of Donald Heiney. He wrote 16 novels and 1 book on sailing (he was in the US Navy during WW2) and lived for most of his life in Newport, California. In 1982 he received a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his entire body of work.
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