Gregory Norminton Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

First translation into English of one of the most popular French children's classics of all times. Recently adapted for the screen

Peopled by werewolves, thieves, emperors and travelling players, this is the story of Tomasso Grilli, a dwarf with an extraordinary capacity for artistic forgery and remarkably flexible morals. He recounts his base beginnings in Florence and his ascent to the dubious pinnacles of criminal success.

The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form a compendium of interrelated stories, running from lyrical romance to scabrous satire, by way of fairy-tale and black comedy. Often wickedly funny, always stunningly written and displaying an astonishing range of voices (the prudish nun, the bawdy old woman, the penitent drunkard, and the glutton whose stomach does all the talking - to name a few) 'The Ship of Fools' is truly a treasure chest of a novel, and an example of story-telling at its very best.