Author: James Clarke
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Hardback
Staff Pick! Emma says…
James Clarke’s Sanderson’s Isle is some sort of thriller set in 1960s England, about a racially ambiguous outsider who comes to London to track down his father. He instead finds himself in a community of free-lovers and acid-party-goers and ends up following Sanderson, a TV presenter, travel writer and egomaniac, on a research trip to the Lake District. It’s a book full of folkloric tendencies toward uncanny Britain, told from the perspective of a soft-hearted cynic.