Titus Awakes: The Lost Book of Gormenghast - Paperback

by Maeve Gilmore (Author), Mervyn Peake (Author), Brian Sibley (Introduction by)

A gothic odyssey beyond the walls of Gormenghast, where the shadows of the past collide with a world that does not remember them.

Titus Awakes continues the story of Titus Groan, the 77th Earl of Gormenghast, as he ventures beyond the crumbling walls of his ancestral castle into a surreal and shifting world.

Originally conceived by Mervyn Peake as the fourth volume in the Gormenghast series, the novel was left unfinished due to Peake's illness. Decades later, Peake's widow, Maeve Gilmore, completed the narrative in a lyrical and haunting manuscript discovered by the family and published in 2010.

As Titus wanders through landscapes both real and imagined, encountering echoes of his past and visions of the future, Titus Awakes becomes a meditation on identity, freedom, and the enduring power of imagination.

A dreamlike journey through memory, exile, and the search for self, Titus Awakes is an imaginative coda to a literary masterpiece. It is a poignant farewell to one of literature's most enigmatic protagonists-and a tribute to the creative legacy of the Peake family.

"A treasure salvaged from the ruins...a strikingly imaginative coda to Peake's masterwork." -New Statesman

Author Biography

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) wrote plays, painted, as well as being poet, illustrator, short-story writer, and designer of theatrical costumes, as well as a novelist. Among his many books are the Gormenghast novels, "Titus Groan, Gormenghast, " and "Titus Alone."
Maeve Gilmore (1918-1983) was a painter, sculptor, and writer. She married Mervyn Peake, author of the Gormenghast novels, in 1937. She is the author of "A World Away, " and the editor of "Peake's Progress."