Published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Scarlett Thomas, 2017
Extract from The Once and Future King reprinted by permission of
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd and David Higham Associates © T.H. White,
The Once and Future King (1958).
Extract from The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated
with notes by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Penguin Books, 1997,
reprinted 2000). Copyright © Richard Peaver and Larissa Volokhonsky, 1997, 2000.
Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
The moral right of the author has been asserted
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ISBN 978 1 78211 702 5
eISBN 978 1 78211 703 2
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