Hy Brasil

by Margaret Elphinstone

After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic, whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century.
Elphinstone's plot takes the island location as its starting point, throws in some old-fashioned piracy, a lost treasure, modern-day drug smuggling, political intrigue, an active volcano and a tragic love affair. Told through Sidony's notes for her book, Hy Brasil has all the elements of an adult adventure story, but it is also a contemporary thriller with literary influences ranging from The Tempest and Treasure Island to Moby-Dick.

• ISBN10: 0857860593
• ISBN13: 9780857860590
• Publish Date: 2 September 2010 (first published 6 June 2002)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Canongate Books
• Edition: Retailer exclusive - Open Road
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 448
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Not really my kind of book, it's a strange mix of fantasy and slice-of-life novel and it's about somewhere I often describe my accent as coming from but it didn't excite me, I was happy to leave it in work and read it in snippets.