Tapestry by Philip Terry. Paperback first edition published by Reality Street in 2013.

Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry's English embroiderers. Combining magic realism and Oulipian techniques, this is a tour de force of narrative and language.

It's narrated by one of the English nuns tasked with creating the Bayeux Tapestry. Terry has chosen to write the story in a pseudo-language of his own with words from those languages at the time - Old Norse, Anglo Saxon and ancient French - interwoven together to form a tapestry of text.

Excellent general condition, appears unread. Pages bright, clean and tightly bound. Hardly anywear to the covers or spine.

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