The History of Titus Groan, the BBC Adaptation of the Gormenghast series of novels by Mervyn Peake, has won the Best Adaptation Award at the inaugural BBC Audio Drama Awards. The series, re-adapted by Brian Sibley, consists of six one-hour episodes and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 last year.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a novelist, poet, playwright, painter, illustrator and children’s writer. Nowadays Peake is best known for the three novels which make up the Gormenghast trilogy. However, prior to their publication he was best known his poems, paintings, drawings, and book illustrations. Carcanet publish Peake's Collected Poems. We also publish Peake's Complete Nonsense, which contains all the poems and illustrations previously published in Peake’s Book of Nonsense (1972), with forty unpublished poems discovered in manuscripts and thirty from other uncollected sources, including all the nonsense verses from his novels. It reprints complete – for the first time and in colour – the words and images from Rhymes without Reason (1944), and Peake’s comic masterpiece Figures of Speech (1954).

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