Riding the Unicorn

London England: Victor Gollancz, 1994. Hardback. First Edition. Price clipped to D/J. John Willoby is a prison officer - tough, stolid, unimaginative, a hard-drinking man at odds with his wife and teenage daughter. And Willoby is hearing voices, and strange sounds: the clash of swords, the thunder of horses' hooves. He suspects he's going mad. His family know he is. Then the hallucinations begin visions of another world. At times Willoby can almost believe he's there, in a wild, strange, primitive place - a place he finds more attractive than the bleak modern world he lives in. In that place a city is being built by a people who have survived a brutal journey over mountains to settle in a new land. But a bastard son is plotting to gain control of his father's kingdom, by bloodshed. And Willoby, unknowing, is part of that plan. For Willoby is not mad....254 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.