Follow This Thread

Delightful, ingenious and beautifully designed--Philip Pullman Eliot's book darts with a nimble wit, sentences arcing from one page to the next so you must turn the entire thing as you read, an experience I had not had since the labyrinths of Mark Z Danielewski's novel House of Leaves. Ariadne's red thread runs throughout, a sinuous scribble forming mazes, but also minotaurs and Mephistopheles and Lara Croft.--New Statesman Genuinely odd . . . you'll want to buy copies for all your friends--Spectator A hypnotising and strangely physical experience. Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights. Many books are described as 'journeys' but Follow This Thread really is one.--Alan Connor, author of Two Girls, One on Each Knee real labyrinthine fun ... a remarkable feat of creativity--Bookseller Beautifully immaculate degree zero prose . . . a coherent and exhilarating experience--Greg Bright, the 'Maze King' The illustrations encourage the reader to follow a single red line as it surges and zigzags from page to page, sometimes making us read upside down or back to front. It turns reading into a game in which the book is both a puzzle and its own solution, and the results are variously enticing, frustrating and addictive - not unlike a real maze--Guardian A captivating and informative ode to the maze--Publishers Weekly US An utterly unique reading experience.--Booklist Follow This Thread can be thrillingly odd and disconcerting, its narrative twists and turns mirrored as the text shifts through various orientations on the page--Eurogamer