hope mirrlees

This month we're joined by the fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna, creator of several epic series including The Tales of Einarinn, The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy. Juliet talks to us about one of the very first examples...

Lud-in-the-Mist is an odd, but beautiful novel - attributes which, contemporary accounts suggest, it shares with its creator, Hope Mirrlees. It belongs to the category of eccentric, fantastic novels written in the earlier half of the last century, works such as those of Lord Dunsany, CS Lewis...