A VINTAGE ORIGINAL, APRIL 2015

Copyright © 2007, 2012, 2015 by Brian Catling

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., Toronto. Originally published, in different form, in Great Britain by Honest Publishing, London, in 2012.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Catling, B. (Brian)

The Vorrh / Brian Catling. — First edition.

pages; cm

1. Africa—Fiction.   I. Title.

PR6053.A848V59 2015   823’.914—dc23   2014037260

Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN 9781101873786

eBook ISBN 9781101873793

Cover design: Pablo Delcán

Cover photograph: Phases of the Eclipse of the Sun, January 11th, 1880 by Edward Muybridge; insert: A plate depicting muscinae by Ernst Haeckel

eBook design adapted from printed book design by Jaclyn Whalen

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