'With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender
'Like a haiku a couple of hundred pages long, Red Smoking Mirror is taut, poised and powerful. There's not a spare word. Every inflection counts. Hunt has produced something truly special; a novel that both broods and races, and which tells us vital, troubling and hopeful things about ourselves' - Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild
'A vivid, richly inhabited account which rings with authenticity, both in its detail and in its emotional impact' - Cynan Jones, author of Cove
'Nick Hunt deftly pulls off a delicately embroidered tale of what so easily might have been ... A feast of language and imagination, briming with very real detail and insight' - Benedict Allen, author of Explorer
'A novel of great originality, humanity, and quest' - Dan Richards, author of Outpost
'A beautifully written evocation of a world that never was' - Lisa Tuttle, Guardian
'The reader wanders through Hunt's richly imagined Tenochtitlan in a beautiful stupor ... A distinguished travel writer, Hunt enlivens his city with the sorts of passing details that make a place concrete ... brilliant' - Michael La Pointe, TLS
'It's a straight-up novel of intrigue, full of shadowy secrets, cloak-and-dagger politics and intimate betrayals' - Jonathan, McAloon, Financial Times
Praise for Nick Hunt:
'Travel writing in excelsis' - Jan Morris
'Nick Hunt has written a glorious book, rich with insight and wit, about walking his way both across and into contemporary Europe' - Robert Macfarlane
'A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder' - Amy Liptrot
'A beautiful, disquieting book' - William Atkins
'Nick Hunt's bold exploration of our hidden continent makes you fall in wonder with the Earth again. Passionate, learned, surprising and revelatory, this is a journey for our times' - Kapka Kassabova
'Unusual, highly original debut novel that will hopefully not prove his only venture into fiction' - The New European
