Red Smoking Mirror

<p><strong>‘With <em>Red Smoking Mirror</em>, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ - Joanna Pocock, author of <em>Surrender</em></strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted</strong> <strong>in the 2024 Edward Stanford Awards for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place</strong></p><p><br></p><p>‘A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was’ -<em> Guardian</em></p><p><br></p><p>The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb.</p><p><br></p><p>For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben Abram, who led the first ships across the sea, has maintained a delicate peace in the Moorish enclave of Moctezuma’s breathtaking capital. But the emperor has been acting strangely, sacrifices are increasing at the temples, a mysterious sickness is spreading through the city, and there are rumours of a hostile army crossing the sea…</p><p><br></p><p>‘Highly original’ - <em>Irish Times</em></p>