Albert Angelo Dudley Pope and the disappearance of Scarnsea's

and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic

are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello

Fetherhoughton is a drab

this haunting tale of guilt and grief treads a perfect line between chilling ghost story and gripping mystery’ Tom Hindle

she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and becomes determined to find out more

Albert Angelo Dudley Pope and the disappearance of Scarnsea'sIn his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he really discovered what he should be doing. On page 163 of this extraordinary book is one