Author: CN Editorial Team

Publisher’s Description:’Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. Described by Ted Hughes as ‘the father of us all’, Thomas’s distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook.’

Centenary News Review:’After a slow start, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land builds into a truly rich novel. It is detailed and Duffy’s knowledge is clear (shell shock and execution for desertion are just two subjects introduced very early on), but it never feels forced. Occasionally historical fiction of this kind can read like a check list of tropes, but here Duffy works important elements of the war into the tale so that they are inextricably linked. There is no jarring.’