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Follow This Thread

  • Imprint: Particular Books

  • ISBN: 9781846149313

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 205mm x 22mm x 140mm

  • Weight: 456g

  • RRP: £16.99

Follow This Thread

  • A Maze Book to Get Lost In

'Delightful, ingenious and beautifully designed' Philip Pullman

'Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights. Many books are described as 'journeys' but Follow This Thread really is one' Alan Connor

'Beautifully immaculate degree zero prose . . . a coherent and exhilarating experience' Greg Bright, the 'Maze King'

Take an immersive journey into the labyrinthine world of mazes

Labyrinths are as old as humanity, the proving grounds of heroes, the paths of pilgrims, symbols of spiritual rebirth and pleasure gardens for pure entertainment. Henry Eliot, co-author of the acclaimed Curiocity, leads us on a twisting journey through the world of mazes, real and imagined, unravelling our ancient, abiding relationship with them and exploring why they continue to fascinate us, from Kafka and Kubrick to the myth of the Minotaur and a quest to solve the disappearance of the legendary Maze King. Are you ready to step inside?

  • Imprint: Particular Books

  • ISBN: 9781846149313

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 205mm x 22mm x 140mm

  • Weight: 456g

  • RRP: £16.99

Reviews

  • Delightful, ingenious and beautifully designed

    Philip Pullman

  • Eliot's book darts with a nimble wit, sentences arcing from one page to the next so you must turn the entire thing as you read, an experience I had not had since the labyrinths of Mark Z Danielewski's novel House of Leaves. Ariadne's red thread runs throughout, a sinuous scribble forming mazes, but also minotaurs and Mephistopheles and Lara Croft.

    New Statesman

  • Genuinely odd . . . you'll want to buy copies for all your friends

    Spectator

  • A hypnotising and strangely physical experience. Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights. Many books are described as 'journeys' but Follow This Thread really is one.

    Alan Connor, author of Two Girls, One on Each Knee

  • real labyrinthine fun ... a remarkable feat of creativity

    Bookseller

  • Beautifully immaculate degree zero prose . . . a coherent and exhilarating experience

    Greg Bright, the 'Maze King'

  • The illustrations encourage the reader to follow a single red line as it surges and zigzags from page to page, sometimes making us read upside down or back to front. It turns reading into a game in which the book is both a puzzle and its own solution, and the results are variously enticing, frustrating and addictive - not unlike a real maze

    Guardian

  • A captivating and informative ode to the maze

    Publishers Weekly US

  • An utterly unique reading experience.

    Booklist

  • Follow This Thread can be thrillingly odd and disconcerting, its narrative twists and turns mirrored as the text shifts through various orientations on the page

    Eurogamer

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About the Author

Henry Eliot

Henry Eliot is the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics. Before joining Penguin he organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which raised money for the National Literacy Trust, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte D'Arthur. He is the author of Follow This Thread and Curiocity (with Matt Lloyd-Rose).

Henry Eliot

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Henry Eliot is the creative editor of Penguin Classics. Having studied English Literature at Cambridge University, he has spent the past decade immersed in literature, creating a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust inspired by William Morris, recreating Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to raise money for the National Literacy Trust and leading a number of literary tours, including a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte Darthur. He was a Trustee of the William Blake literary society for three years. He is the author of Follow This Thread, a maze-like book about the history and psychology of mazes, and Curiocity, written with Matt Lloyd-Rose, an illustrated book of unexpected London journeys and experiences.

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