Fludd

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [v], 186. Publisher's pastel brown cloth, lettered in black to spine. Jacket illustration by Russell Ayto (priced £11.95 to front flap).

Author's fourth novel. A dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors of 1950s England. Winner of the 1990 Cheltenham Prize for Literature, the 1990 Southern Arts Literature Prize, and the 1989 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, awarded by the Royal Society of Literature. Shortlisted for the 1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.

Mantel is twice-winner of the Booker Prize with her epic Tudor novels Wolf Hall (2009), and Bringing Up the Bodies (2012). "A faultless comic masterpiece." – Auberon Waugh, Literary Review