First English edition. 256pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine. Spine heel gently bumped. White marks along outer edge of covers likely from dust jacket. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges. 8vo. Bursting with colour and raw emotion, and embracing grand themes of loyalty, family, honour and war, 'Death of an Ancient' King is like a lost fragment of a Greek tragedy. Told in a simple, hypnotic prose that gathers beauty with every page, this small, prize-winning jewel of a book is impossible to classify, but the richness of its achievement announces the arrival of a major literary talent.
