Tyll'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan 'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman Rushdie Translated by Ross Benjamin He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope

Jennifer Saint

The mountain's defences are weak

With his arms stretched out beside him he pretends to be a bird

You know that feeling

Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person

struggling to adjust to her new life teaching Latin and as a single mother

Vespasian must find a way to serve two masters - Narcissus is determined to ruin Agrippina

but she is also being followed

Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment

drink-sodden and heavy with sadness

theres greatness

who's been trying to find the victim for months