Gormenghast, Paperback/Mervyn Peake

"A gloriously impossible realization of Mervyn Peake's soaring flight of fancy."-- Guardian In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence.