[Albion Triptych 01] • Gog

A seven-foot-tall man washes up naked on the Scottish coast with no memory of his past and no clue to his identity except the words “Gog” and “Magog” tattooed on his knuckles. Knowing only that he must somehow get to London, he sets off on foot on a four hundred mile journey across Britain. As we accompany him on his surreal quest and share his strange adventures – by turns hilarious, horrific, bawdy, and bizarre – unexpected truths gradually emerge not only about his own past but also the history of Britain itself.

A towering achievement that blends myth, history, epic fantasy, Gothic horror, and picaresque adventure, *Gog* (1967) was acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, who compared it to the great works of Cervantes, Swift, Fielding, Dickens and Joyce. This new edition, the first in decades, joins two other classics by Andrew Sinclair also available from Valancourt.

**Reviews**

“The best tribute to *Gog* . . . is the fact that we must evoke weighty names for its best qualities. Inevitably one turns to Cervantes and Swift . . . Laughter, horror, violence and lust all are facets of *Gog’s* unconcluded quest-journey, which may be long remembered.” – Edmund Fuller, *Wall Street Journal*

“A *walpurgisnacht* extravaganza upon the whole history of Britain from Stonehenge to Stansted . . . a quirkish, wild gothick explosion of a book. . . . it’s Rabelais and Charles Williams rolled into one, and I enjoyed every surprising paragraph of it.” – *The Listener*

“ *Gog* is a masterful creation . . . not only one of the most intelligent, but certainly one of the most entertaining English novels of recent years.” – *The Spectator*

“Sureness of talent, intelligence, sophistication, energy, charm, wit, wild and lyric imagination.” – Eliot Fremont-Smith, *New York Times*