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Author: Red Smoking Mirror, Outlandish, Loss Soup, Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, The Parakeeting of London. Co-director: Dark Mountain
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"Behind Hunt’s ambitiously constructed reality, Red Smoking Mirror is essentially a straight-up novel of intrigue, full of shadowy secrets, cloak-and-dagger politics and intimate betrayals ... it offers a dark, half-obscured reflection of reality."

A lovely review of my debut novel in the Financial Tumes: https://www.ft.com/content/c2407281-adbe-42e8-b01b-1d855b1415b4

Red Smoking Mirror by Nick Hunt — the Aztecs meet al-Andalus

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Financial Times

Two exciting events coming up this week for my novel #RedSmokingMirror:

Mr B's, Bath, on 19th July https://tinyurl.com/bdfynrtd
Stanfords, London, on 20th July https://tinyurl.com/2hrztpab

If you're in Bath or London, please come along!

Red Smoking Mirror with Nick Hunt - Mr B's Emporium

Join us as we welcome Nick Hunt back to Mr B’s to discuss his spectacular debut novel, Red Smoking Mirror. Nick has previously written several travel books, including Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, and most recently the Mr B’s favourite, Outlandish. Now he turns his hand to fiction with […]

Mr B's Emporium
I took this book slowly, as you might sip a cup of xocolatl. It heightens the senses, is almost hallucinogenic. You hear the chirp of the cricket, scent the lake, feel the rumble of the volcano. Moslems, Mexicans, and the Jewish narrator wonder at one another's cultures and I did too. I've read space operas that were less alien and also less human. Finally, the plot is a mystery slowly revealed with satisfying logic. It deserves a big audience, and they deserve it.
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With extreme heat raging in the south of Europe, here's my piece about hiking on Aletsch, the greatest glacier in the Alps – now going the way of all glaciers in this age of climate change. 'Last-chance tourism', or something else? For Guardian Travel
https://theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/10/i-walked-the-alps-largest-glacier-it-felt-like-last-chance-tourism-
I walked the Alps’ largest glacier. It felt like ‘last-chance tourism’

A trek on the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is dazzling, but also a stark example of the damage caused by global warming

The Guardian
Out today! My debut novel Red Smoking Mirror https://swiftpress.com/book/red-smoking-mirror/
Swift Press | Red Smoking Mirror

What if Ferdinand and Isabella had failed, Columbus hadn't sailed, and Andalusian Moors had prevailed? I've often wondered, so I'm looking forward to starting this alternative timeline set in Spain and Mexico.
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I'm thrilled to have these words from Cynan Jones – a writer I hugely admire.

Just over two months to go until RED SMOKING MIRROR is out. It can be pre-ordered now https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/red-smoking-mirror-nick-hunt/7422862?ean=9781800753211
My debut novel RED SMOKING MIRROR will be published in July 2023. https://swiftpress.com/book/red-smoking-mirror/
Swift Press | Red Smoking Mirror

Talking About Books interviewed Nick Hunt about his travel writing and how he chooses his unusual journeys, the impact of human activity on the planet, gonzo ornithology, and how his fiction and travel writing influence each other.

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Read the full interview. https://talking-about-books.com/2023/02/22/following-unusual-paths-interview-with-nick-hunt/

Following Unusual Paths: Interview with Nick Hunt

Talking About Books
Last month I visited a place where sand dunes swallow villages. My piece on the uncanny landscape of Lithuania's Curonian Spit for Guardian Travel https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/feb/20/winter-break-in-lithuania
Immersed in sea, snow, sand and silence: a winter break in Lithuania

A 60-mile sandbar dotted with forests and icy lagoons, the Curonian Spit’s buried villages, elk and elemental beauty attracted Sartre and De Beauvoir

The Guardian