Something in The Salt Path always felt 'off' to me, but I was waiting for someone to prove that the walk itself never happened, I think.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant 👏 🙌 🌿

Cheers! 🍻

A pleasure Patrick, cheers!

And I've loved this song for 15 years -- what a night to hear it!

You're so right about the 'art' in his writing too -- super visual, and the language of the place so dense and baroque. And his names are so good, like tiny cameo portraits in themselves. So strange and crumbly and vivid, all of it.

Oh man, I love love love this book, and Gormenghast. Wild to think this could have been THE blueprint for what fantasy looked like if JRR hadn't had the stranglehold (and broader appeal/clear moral arcs/actual magic etc etc).

Oh yes -- intimidatingly good.

Wonderful things, JP! Nice to find you on here, too.

Love this, Peter! And can imagine the 'feedback' from the chefs!