Red Smoking Mirror: 'The love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' Joanna Pocock
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Red Smoking Mirror: 'The love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' Joanna Pocock

Red Smoking Mirror: 'The love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' Joanna Pocock

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Nick Hunt (Author)  

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'With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender Shortlisted in the 2024 Edward Stanford Awards for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben Abram, who led the first ships across the sea, has maintained a delicate peace in the Moorish enclave of Moctezuma's breathtaking capital, assisted by his Nahua wife Malinala. But the emperor has been acting strangely, sacrifices are increasing at the temples, a mysterious sickness is spreading through the city, and there are rumours of a hostile army crossing the sea... A bravura reimagining of an alternate history, Red Smoking Mirror is a richly written novel of love and fate, of how cultures co-operate and clash, and of how individuals can shape and are shaped by the times they live through.
Nick Hunt has written a trilogy of books about walking in Europe - Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water - two of which were shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, New Internationalist, Geographical ?and numerous other publications, and he works as co-director for the Dark Mountain Project. Red Smoking Mirror is his first novel.
  • Contributor: Nick Hunt
  • Imprint: Swift Press
  • ISBN13: 9781800753211
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Packaged Dimensions: 135x216mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Swift Press
  • Release Date: 2023-07-06
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Nick Hunt has written a trilogy of books about walking in Europe - Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water - two of which were shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, New Internationalist, Geographical ?and numerous other publications, and he works as co-director for the Dark Mountain Project. Red Smoking Mirror is his first novel.

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