Titus Awakes Av Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake

<p>In <i>Titus Awakes</i> the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus'' bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past. <br><br>Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but he died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the painter and writer Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of <i>The Gormenghast Trilogy</i> will delight in.</p>