Two Americans three centuries apart discover the horrifying truth
behind events which seem to defy explanation,as an ancient horror returns to claim victims in the present and future.
Based on real events,and following connected developments across Wales,the UK,Europe and the USA from 1641..
By popular request following Man-Booker 2011 and Nobel Prize 2011-12 Nominations,the meaning of the cover design has been expertly interpreted as:based on the primitive art of Branwell Bronte,whose sister gets a mention in the book.
It was designed to be gently mocked-after the featured badly-mocked Messiah figure/military genius RebeccaR. It was based on the still-wet(3D effect)Harvey Pact skin(using red letters)and the Carte Blanche( aristocratic blue blood lettering) with 1917 & 1938 events represented by Art Deco lettering.
The original signature would have been a curse on the victim by William Harvey or the Marquis de Sade. The author assumed `Best Wishes` was more benign.
Including a Banksy or Picasso signature was suggested,but considered too crass,despite making it more collectable .
The unpainted cross-beam is for the artists lost at Theresienstadt . Also the child artists(who have since become un-persons,as Orwell put it in `1984`) lost in the 2007 Shambo hospice holocaust,which gets a mention in the book.
behind events which seem to defy explanation,as an ancient horror returns to claim victims in the present and future.
Based on real events,and following connected developments across Wales,the UK,Europe and the USA from 1641..
By popular request following Man-Booker 2011 and Nobel Prize 2011-12 Nominations,the meaning of the cover design has been expertly interpreted as:based on the primitive art of Branwell Bronte,whose sister gets a mention in the book.
It was designed to be gently mocked-after the featured badly-mocked Messiah figure/military genius RebeccaR. It was based on the still-wet(3D effect)Harvey Pact skin(using red letters)and the Carte Blanche( aristocratic blue blood lettering) with 1917 & 1938 events represented by Art Deco lettering.
The original signature would have been a curse on the victim by William Harvey or the Marquis de Sade. The author assumed `Best Wishes` was more benign.
Including a Banksy or Picasso signature was suggested,but considered too crass,despite making it more collectable .
The unpainted cross-beam is for the artists lost at Theresienstadt . Also the child artists(who have since become un-persons,as Orwell put it in `1984`) lost in the 2007 Shambo hospice holocaust,which gets a mention in the book.
