Description

Shortlisted for the Person Booker Prize, Darkmans is definitely an exciting, remarkable study of the ways in which history may play jokes on all of us, If History is a tired joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who specifically may be informing it, and why? Might it be John Scogin, Edward IVis notorious court jester, whose favorite activity was to burn people alive - for fun? Or might it's Tim Boarde, Henry VIII's doctor, who generously published John Scogin's resource? Or might it be considered a Kurd named Gaffar whose times are blighted by an unspeakable horror of - uh - salad?