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Angelmaker Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 20, 2012

by Nick Harkaway (Author)
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A Wall Street Journal and Booklist Best Mystery of 2012

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
 
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be—she’s a retired international secret agent. And the device? It’s a 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie’s old arch-nemesis. On the upside, Joe’s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joe’s once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his father’s old gun . . .
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“It’s hard to put a finger on exactly why Angelmaker is one of the year’s best books. Know this, though: it is.”
    —Niall Alexander, Tor.com

“Greetings to Joe Spork, the book world’s newest hero. He springs from the fertile, absurdist imagination of Harkaway in his follow-up to The Gone-Away World.”
   —Billy Heller, New York Post
 
“Brilliant, wholly original, and a major-league hoot.”
    —Adam Woog, The Seattle Times

“[Harkaway] manages to write surrealist adventure novels that feel both urgent and relevant. His novels are fun to read without seeming particularly frivolous, and beneath all the derring-do and shenanigans, there’s a low thrum of anxiety: everything and everyone you love could disappear at any moment. . . . Angelmaker is a truly impressive achievement.”
    —Emily St. John Mandel, The Millions
 
“A big, gleefully absurd, huggable bear of a novel. . . . A pleasantly roomy book, a grand old manor house of a novel that sprawls and stretches. . . . In passage after passage, Angelmaker opens up, making room for the reader, until we aren’t merely empathizing with Joe Spork’s plight but feeling it keenly. . . . All the more reason to applaud Harkaway for creating Joe Spork: not only like us but likable, a hero who serves not as a dark mirror but as a funhouse one.”
     —Glen Weldon, Slate 
 
“[A] gloriously uninhibited romp of a novel. . . . Harkaway has managed to recapture the lighthearted brio of an earlier age of precision entertainment, when the world was deemed to be perpetually teetering on the brink of Armageddon but always capable of being snatched back to safety with a quip, a wink, [and] a judo chop.”
    —Paul Di Filippo, Barnes and Noble Review 

“A lot of books are fun to read for the plot; a smaller percentage display this artful mastery of the language. And precious few manage to do both. Angelmaker, the second novel by British writer Nick Harkaway, falls into that last category. . . . This is not the sort of book I zip through, despite wanting to know what happens next. It’s the sort of book you want to let steep in your brain a bit before you take another taste.”
     —Jonathan Liu, Wired.com’s GeekDad blog

“An intricate and brilliant piece of escapism, tipping its hat to the twisting plots of John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, the goggles-and-gauntlets Victoriana of the steampunk movement and the labyrinthine secret Londons of Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair, while maintaining an originality, humour and verve all its author’s own. . . .  Angelmaker must have been huge fun to write, and it is huge fun to read. . . . A fantasy espionage novel stuffed with energetic, elegant writing that bowls the reader along while reflecting profitably on the trends of the times. Gleefully nostalgic and firmly modern, hand-on-heart and tongue-in-cheek, this is as far as it could be from the wearied tropes that dominate so much of fantasy and SF. I can’t wait to see what Harkaway does next.”
     —Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph, (5 out of 5 stars)

“Harkaway’s celebrated debut, The Gone-Away World . . . was really just a warm up act—a prodigiously talented novelist stretching muscles that few other writers even possess—for this tour de force Dickensian bravura and genre-bending splendor. . . . This is a marvelous book, both sublimely intricate and compulsively readable.”
      —Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review)
 
“Harkaway keeps us guessing, traveling the edges between fantasy, sci-fi, the detective novel, pomo fiction and a good old-fashioned comedy of the sort that Jerome K. Jerome might have written had he had a ticking thingy instead of a boat as his prop. . . . His tale stands comparison to Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84.”
     —Kirkus (starred review)

“A long, wild journey through a London dream world. . . . With its bizarre scenarios and feverish wordiness, its huge cast of British eccentrics and the ark forces of paranoia and totalitarianism lurking everywhere, this novel recalls the works of Martin Amis and Will Self. Immense fun and quite exciting.”
    —Jim Coan, Library Journal

“A puzzle box of a novel as fascinating as the clockwork bees it contains, filled with intrigue, espionage and creative use of trains. As if that were not enough to win my literary affection, Harkaway went and gave me a raging crush on a fictional lawyer.”
     —Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus

“You are in for a treat, sort of like Dickens meets Mervyn Peake in a modern Mother London. The very best sort of odd.” 
   —William Gibson, author of Zero History
                       
“Nick Harkaway's novel is like a fractal: when examined at any scale, it reveals itself to be complex, fine-structured and ornately beautiful. And just like a fractal, all of this complexity and beauty derives from a powerful and elegant underlying idea.”
   —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
 
“This brilliant, boundless mad genius of a book runs on its own frenetic energy, and bursts with infinite wit, inventive ambition and damn fine storytelling. You finish reading it in gape-mouthed awe and breathless admiration, having experienced something very special indeed.”
   —Matt Haig, author of The Radleys

“A joyously sprawling, elaborately plotted, endlessly entertaining novel filled with adventure, comedy, espionage, and romance, Angelmaker also deals with intriguing questions of free will and the nature of truth without stopping to take a breath. As if the book is made of clockwork, the pages turn themselves.”
   —Dexter Palmer, author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Praise from the U.K.

“A magnificent, literary, post-pulp triumph. . . . Angelmaker is an entertaining tour-de-force that demands to be adored.”
     —David Barnett, The Independent

“An ambitious, crowded, restless caper, cleverly told and utterly immune to précis. . . .  A solid work of modern fantasy fiction.”
     —James Purdon, The Observer

“Angelmaker is one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in ages. . . . A joyful display of reckless, delightful invention, on a par with the rocket-powered novels of Neal Stephenson, if in rather more ironically diffident English form. Ideas come zinging in from all corners, and do so with linguistic verve and tremendous humour. . . . Once it gets going, it’s brilliantly entertaining, and the last hundred pages are pure, unhinged delight. What a splendid ride.”
     —Patrick Ness, The Guardian

“[The Gone-Away World] was a work of such glorious, exhaustive excess a part of me wondered if Harkaway would actually write again. I am profoundly glad that he has: Angelmaker is every bit as entertaining and imaginative. . . . Effervescent and witty. . . . Harkaway manages the ideal blend of paying homage to a very British sense of decency and fair play, while at the same time idolising the rule-breakers.”
     —Stuart Kelly, Scotsman on Sunday
 
“[Harkaway is] a rare kind of writer. . . . There is something elegantly nostalgic about Angelmaker, whether in the derring-do adventure of it, or the loving invocations of artisanship. . . . [Yet] it’s a gleefully post-modern book in its weaving together of genres with imagery from comic books, film and TV, and its richly imagined setting of a London with underground passages and secret markets.”
    —Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman

About the Author

Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall in 1972. He studied philosophy, sociology and politics at Clare College, Cambridge, and then worked in the film industry. His fiction debut was The Gone-Away World. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
 
www.nickharkaway.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; First Edition (March 20, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0307595951
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0307595959
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.64 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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Nick Harkaway (that’s me, by the way) is a writer. He lives in London with his wife, their two children and an existentially anxious dog. He likes ordinary things like rivers and mountains, and remarkable things like modern medicine and the making of wine. He is interested in almost anything, but usually for a relatively short period of time. He turned fifty in 2022 and does not know what he would like to do when he grows up. He would also like to know where to apply for his refund for 2020 and 2021. His wife and children are all better people than he is, which makes him feel very lucky. Honestly, if you’re still reading at this point you may just want to get one of my books, because they are in many ways a more truthful self-description than any biog. Oh, and I also write morally disimproving thrillers as Aidan Truhen.

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FoxysMom
5.0 out of 5 stars elegant writing and fabulous adventure
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2015
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Joe Spork has walked the straight and narrow his whole life, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, working as a clockwork repairman. He's been trying to hide from the legacy left to him by his father, Matthew, who lived his life at the head of organized crime; Joe doesn't want to be his father's son. But when a friend brings in a strange mechanical book for Joe to repair, strangers start taking an interest in the horologist. And when that mechanical book triggers a hive of mechanical bees to take flight, someone frames Joe for terrorism, making him flee from the life he's lived to the life he tried to hide from.

Ever hear the expression "show, don't tell," with regards to writing? This book was fabulous, in that respect. Nick Harkaway doesn't shy away from flowery prose, large words, or long winded descriptions... and I loved every verbose sentence of it. He took a steampunk/fantasy story set in modern-day and and wrote it with the elegance one would expect to find in a storyline set in Victorian England. I could close my eyes and watch the story unfold in my mind's eye, and that was wonderful break from the modern mindset of "just get to the point already..." This was a story meant to be savored slowly, and you'll love it, if you're into that sort of thing.

Joe Spork, is our main character, but he's hardly the only one worth mentioning. His elderly client, Edie Banister and her blind dog Bastion are mysteriously connected to his story--Edie lived a colorful life as a secret agent, and the dog was a gift from her mad scientist lover, Frankie Fossoyeur. Frankie Fossoyeur, inventor of the machine to end all wars as commission by a blood thirsty dictator Shem Shem Tsien who is obsessed with becoming God. Speaking of bloodthirsty, there's also a fair amount of the deranged and dedicated, cops and cultists, who want to capture Joe and make him tell everthing he knows, even though he knows nothing... Which is what his lawyers, oversexxed Polly and criminally clever Mercer, tell him to say when confronted by agents of the law. And who could forget, Harriet Spork, Joe's mom: mobwife turned nun...

This plotline's got a little bit of everything. Mystery and humor, action and romance, espionage and torture; a serial killer here and an anarchist there...but beware sci-fi fans: though labelled steampunk, this is so light on science fiction I feel more comfortable calling it fantasy. It's an adventure and it's full of flawed characters...two things I desire most in a story right after superb spelling and grammar. And every flawed character, the good and the bad, is being lead to an epic battle for the universe, between old-timey gangsters, religious zealots, and automata minions.

This is one of those stories I enjoyed from the first sentence to the last, I hated having to put it down, couldn't wait to pick it back up. If you're like me at all, if you're the type of reader who wants to escape into a beautifully imagined adventure with a touch of magic and crazy characters galore(complete with strong females): this is the book to read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A quirky romp that offers more than just fun
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2012
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An inventive intricate bit of literary stew. Harkaway's novel reads like a comic spy thriller, a tour through Peter Ackroyd's and Charles Dickens's London replete with honorable thieves and evil government operatives, a steampunk comic without the pictures, and a P.G. Woodehouse romp all nicely marinated and cooked to tender perfection. Can our hapless hero, Joshua Joseph Spork, a meek and law abiding clockmaker, manage to avert the end of the world? Or will he, and everyone else, meet an untimely end, despite the assistance of a girl with moxie, a vicious if blind elderly pug, a nonagenarian female super spy, the world's craftiest lawyer, his father's tommy gun and the best the London underworld has to offer?

Beneath the frenetic action, "Angelmaker" is about Joe's coming into himself and coming to terms with his family's history. Even while maintaining a light and farcical tone, Joe's emotional life and growth are affecting and along with Harkaway's interest in philosophical questions give the book greater resonance than might be expected from the jacket blurbs and a plot summary. The central emotional journey is framed with appealing considerations of such heavyweight questions as the nature of free will, the knowability and implications of absolute truth. Not to mention considerations of faith and morality. Thankfully Harkaway doesn't overplay his hand and manages to integrate these considerations into the plot and character development with appealing breeziness.

The only significant missteps in the book are unfortunately centered on Joe's love interest, Polly. Oftern she is a woman to be reckoned with and her appeal palpable. At other times, however, she is reduced to an adolescent male fantasy figure. Her argument on why she and Joe should have sex is a brilliant piece of logic that, while funny, reads like something every teenage boy wishes had happened to him. At other points she fluctuates wildly between bracing competence and a caricature of a dumb moll. Really, it's just too much. Yes, female characters can like sex, but it makes her into a figure of fun instead of a real person that Joe, a fully realized and emotionally expansive figure, would come to love.

While it is a minor note, as with many novels by talented writers, the editors seem to have backed away from the last little bit of tightening that would have changed little, but made this an even more approachable and tightly crafted novel. I realize it's difficult to quash verbally inventive writing, but there were points where bit jokes were left in when they should have been cut and other points where a touch of extra clarification and emphasis would have tied together plot points in a way that could have helped the story pack an even harder punch.

Minor flaws aside, this is grand fun and I look forward to Harkaway's next outing and in the meantime, I'm planning to read his first book, "The Gone-Away World" though it's too bad he hasn't written more for me to delve into -- yet.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular fun with verve and gusto.
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2023
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A wild romp through various literary tropes. I do believe Thomas Pynchon is smiling. More Steampunk than Science Fiction but really a roiling good yarn.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A rare page turner!
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
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A lovely jaunt in merry England. It brought back fond memories of Doug Adam's and Terri Pratchett. Something about the high English and street parlez-vous is literary music.
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4.0 out of 5 stars like a lucid dream
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This book is quite amazing, reminiscent of Pynchon, Neil Gaimon and China Mieville with a lot of interesting philosophical questions, and a Murakami-like blurring of the real and the dreamlike. The plot is propulsive, the characters both sort of super-hero and also quite human and the experience immersive and very enjoyable. It’s a steampunk ride through the literal underworld of London.
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Williamanon
5.0 out of 5 stars Another ripping good adventure of the mind
Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2020
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The archest of archvillians, a demented pug, and a clockmaker. Nick Harkaway delivers all this and more as the reader ponders, "If I have the body of Wellington and the memories of Napoleon, who am I? "
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rollicking fun
Reviewed in Australia on December 16, 2017
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Harkaway has a distinctive style: larger than life heroes and villians and outlandish situations. His writing has a cadence that is hard to get out of your head, and while his fondness for non-linear story telling takes a bit of getting used to, it is worth the ride. I cared about the heroes, and their unlikely allies, and spent the last third of the book laughing out loud and occasionally punching the air. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly fantastic!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2013
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Joe Spork is the son of one of England's most notorious criminals, after making a promise to his dad before he died, Joe just wants a quiet life, repairing clockwork just like his Grandad in his shop in a corner of London. Little does Joe know that only is his Dad not the criminal he thought he was, but his Grandmother is involved in something far bigger than Joe could ever imagine. A friend of his Grandmother's, Edie Banister, and her marble eyed pug Bastion, live quietly. Not a situation that sits well with an ex superspy trained since school, and used to living on a continuously moving train at 150mph or in a Submarine. She decides to finish what her old friend Frankie started. Through covert means she asks Joe to fix an unusual piece of clockwork. The clockwork is in actual fact, a 1950's doomsday device that he's just accidentally triggered, and is none the wiser until his friends suddenly turn up dead, there's mad monks in black shrouds, the governments telling tales about him, a South Asian dictator who will just not stay dead, a village that disappeared into the sea under suspicious circumstances, mechanical bee's, a serial killer and scientific geniuses parading all over London and invading his once quiet life and turning it upside down. Joe is the only one who knows where the device everyone wants is....but he doesn't know he knows where it is. He needs to go back to his roots and remember what he was taught in order to survive and save the world and help Edie complete her old mission. Armed with his Dad's old gun and most of London's criminal underworld...can he do it?

I picked this book up because despite not being my usual kind of book, the back cover drew me in and made me very curious...I mean seriously who can resist mad monks, clockwork and scientific geniuses, it sounds like a script for a movie. From the first page I was entirely hooked. Here I am at 5:37 am having just finished the book after feverishly reading it for 2 days straight.

Angelmaker is one of the most beautifully written and complex books I have read this year. The characters jump off the page, the scenes and descriptions are just beautiful and atmospheric and so vivid. The story centers on Joe and is mostly told from his perspective but we also get chapters from Edie's perspective as well as Young Edie and Young Joe. There's little insights into the characters past threaded throughout the story that relates to the main plot but sometimes you don't know it relates at the time! There are whole chapters about Edie's past, so at one point it's like you're reading two different stories, until eventually it all fits together and the pieces start to click that it's all one giant story, spanning generations.

I'm at the stage where most books now are okay but nothing outstanding, I've either become really cynical or books are getting predictable because I can almost always tell exactly what is going to happen next. This was not the case with Angelmaker. I had no idea what was going to happen from one chapter to the next, and believe me I concentrated really hard on this book so it wasn't for lack of trying.

Angelmaker is a fast paced book that steams along so fast you can barely keep up, there's never a dull moment, or a moment where you get bored, there's always something happening, something to make you think. Angelmaker is a thrilling, complex blend of the past and the present, with a complex plot. It has parts that will make you laugh out loud, huge amounts of suspense, action and criminal behavior with a tiny tiny dash of romance. My mind has been blown by this book, it's a blend of reality and fantasy, I literally can't praise this book enough!

I would highly recommend everyone reads this book because it's one of the most entertaining and imaginative books I have read this year, that will keep you guessing until the end!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Angelmaker
Reviewed in Germany on December 27, 2012
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Die Beschenkte war zufrieden und wünscht sich wieder Bücher. Ist daher wohl ein kaufenswertes Buch und lääst sich gut verschenken
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