Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In

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Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In

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240 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: May 25, 2021
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 240
  • Publisher: Penguin Uk
  • ISBN: 9780141985251
  • Dimensions: 5.063" W x 0.0" L x 7.813" H
Delightful, ingenious and beautifully designed—Philip Pullman

Eliot's book darts with a nimble wit, sentences arcing from one page to the next so you must turn the entire thing as you read, an experience I had not had since the labyrinths of Mark Z Danielewski's novel House of Leaves. Ariadne's red thread runs throughout, a sinuous scribble forming mazes, but also minotaurs and Mephistopheles and Lara Croft.—New Statesman

Genuinely odd . . . you'll want to buy copies for all your friends—Spectator

A hypnotising and strangely physical experience. Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights. Many books are described as 'journeys' but Follow This Thread really is one.—Alan Connor, author of Two Girls, One on Each Knee

real labyrinthine fun ... a remarkable feat of creativity—Bookseller

Beautifully immaculate degree zero prose . . . a coherent and exhilarating experience—Greg Bright, the 'Maze King'

The illustrations encourage the reader to follow a single red line as it surges and zigzags from page to page, sometimes making us read upside down or back to front. It turns reading into a game in which the book is both a puzzle and its own solution, and the results are variously enticing, frustrating and addictive - not unlike a real maze—Guardian

A captivating and informative ode to the maze—Publishers Weekly US

An utterly unique reading experience.—Booklist

Follow This Thread can be thrillingly odd and disconcerting, its narrative twists and turns mirrored as the text shifts through various orientations on the page—Eurogamer
Henry Eliot is the author of The Penguin Classics Book, The Penguin Modern Classics Book, Follow This Thread and Curiocity: An Alternative A-Z of London. An inveterate bookworm, Henry has tackled a number of bookish adventures, such as recreating Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, leading pilgrims from Southwark to Canterbury and retelling the tales along the way; mounting a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte d'Arthur; swimming across the Hellespont from Europe to Asia on the bicentenary of Lord Byron's crossing (the subject of Byron's 1810 poem, 'Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos'); and reading Ulysses in real-time on Bloomsday, 16 June, starting at 8am with grilled kidneys and finishing in the early hours of the following morning. He produced an interactive edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest in collaboration with Sir Ian McKellen and Professor Sir Jonathan Bate, which Apple named one of the '10 best apps of 2016', and for five years he was an editor of the Penguin Classics series in London. Today he is one of the QI research elves and hosts the podcast On the Road with Penguin Classics, in which he travels to discuss books with guests including Frank Cottrell Boyce, Louis de Bernières, Rachel Joyce, Patience Agbabi, Andrew Motion and Will Self.

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