Red Smoking Mirror

'A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was' - Guardian

'Full of shadowy secrets, cloak-and-dagger politics and intimate betrayals' - Financial Times

‘With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender

'Like a haiku a couple of hundred pages long, Red Smoking Mirror is taut, poised and powerful. There's not a spare word. Every inflection counts. Hunt has produced something truly special; a novel that both broods and races, and which tells us vital, troubling and hopeful things about ourselves' - Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild

‘A vivid, richly inhabited account which rings with authenticity, both in its detail and in its emotional impact’ - Cynan Jones, author of Cove

‘Nick Hunt deftly pulls off a delicately embroidered tale of what so easily might have been … A feast of language and imagination, briming with very real detail and insight’ - Benedict Allen, author of Explorer

‘A novel of great originality, humanity, and quest’ - Dan Richards, author of Outpost

'The reader wanders through Hunt’s richly imagined Tenochtitlán in a beautiful stupor ... A distinguished travel writer, Hunt enlivens his city with the sorts of passing details that make a place concrete ... brilliant' - Michael La Pointe, TLS

Praise for Nick Hunt:

‘Travel writing in excelsis’ - Jan Morris

‘Nick Hunt has written a glorious book, rich with insight and wit, about walking his way both across and into contemporary Europe’ - Robert Macfarlane

‘A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder’ - Amy Liptrot

‘A beautiful, disquieting book’ - William Atkins

‘Nick Hunt's bold exploration of our hidden continent makes you fall in wonder with the Earth again. Passionate, learned, surprising and revelatory, this is a journey for our times’ - Kapka Kassabova

'Unusual, highly original debut novel that will hopefully not prove his only venture into fiction' - The New European