Weird Islands

About this book

A carpenter and nine musicians set out from Greenwich in a blue boat. Their voyage soon becomes a journey among islands populated by creatures as peculiar as the travellers themselves.

Jean de Bosschère’s fantasy carries its company through encounters with strange birds, threatening islanders and impossible inventions. The Carpenter’s folding aeroplane provides one unlikely means of escape. The voyage has the wandering logic of a dream, with comedy continually giving way to unease as each new shore introduces another unfamiliar set of rules.