Andrew Motion is the former Poet Laureate, co-founded the Poetry Archive and was knighted for his services to literature in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.
Motion has fashioned an exciting narrative that fans of the original will welcome. * Good Book Guide * Motion's narrative is both more lyrical and more gruesome than Robert Louis Stevenson's. * Mail on Sunday * Motion paints an alluring portrait of a land that is in turns bountiful and beautiful, barren and savage. -- Lucy Scholes * Independent * It's written with such gusto and passion that it's impossible not to enjoy it. * Irish Independent * I love The New World... I look forward, hopefully, to more. -- John Sutherland * The Times *