The Hesperides Tree

First edition. 8vo., 312 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Signed by Author to title-page.

His fifteenth novel. Winner of the 1990 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Hopeful Monsters. A young man embarks on a mystical quest on a deserted island off the Irish coast frustrated by the inability of his two chosen courses of study – biology and literature – to adequately define the world.

Son and heir of Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists, Mosley wrote critically of his father in Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933–1980, which was turned into the 1998 Channel 4 TV series, Mosley. "A beguiling work... A masterful author at the height of his powers." –Independent on Sunday