Books

‘A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was’ – Guardian

‘Full of shadowy secrets, cloak-and-dagger politics and intimate betrayals‘ – Financial Times

‘With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ – Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender

‘Like a haiku a couple of hundred pages long, Red Smoking Mirror is taut, poised and powerful. There’s not a spare word. Every inflection counts. Hunt has produced something truly specialCry of the Wild

‘A vivid, richly inhabited account which rings with authenticity, both in its detail and in its emotional impact’ – Cynan Jones, author of Cove

‘Nick Hunt deftly pulls off a delicately embroidered tale of what so easily might have been … A feast of language and imagination, briming with very real detail and insight’ – Benedict Allen, author of Explorer

‘A novel of great originality, humanity, and quest’ – Dan Richards, author of Outpost

‘The reader wanders through Hunt’s richly imagined Tenochtitlán in a beautiful stupor … A distinguished travel writer, Hunt enlivens his city with the sorts of passing details that make a place concrete … brilliant‘ – Michael La Pointe, TLS

Praise for Nick Hunt:

‘Travel writing in excelsis’ – Jan Morris

‘Nick Hunt has written a glorious book, rich with insight and wit, about walking his way both across and into contemporary Europe’ – Robert Macfarlane

‘A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder’ – Amy Liptrot

‘A beautiful, disquieting book’ – William Atkins

‘Nick Hunt’s bold exploration of our hidden continent makes you fall in wonder with the Earth again. Passionate, learned, surprising and revelatory, this is a journey for our times’ – Kapka Kassabova

‘Unusual, highly original debut novel that will hopefully not prove his only venture into fiction’ – The New European