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First English translation of Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1884) since 1908: the story of a noble family's internal conflict and downfall during the wars that swept northern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. A dense historical novel by the author of The Dykemaster, with elements of drama, Gothic fiction, Walter Scott romance and the grotesque.

The Doppelganger is the story of a reformed ex-prisoner who finds himself an unemployable outcast on release from prison, his crime having already been a consequence of harsh economic conditions in mid-19-century north Germany. The stark events of his life, pieced together after his death within an outer narrative, are in sharp contrast to his daug