The Alchemical Horseman – a novel by Jeremy James

In this latest offering from Jeremy James, Brave New World meets The Quest for the Holy Grail.

At the historic menstruation of 34 years in addition to i week, having reached novel personal depths of depravation in addition to degradation, Xavier Perdue (the mention says it all) prepares to flee his base of operations in addition to futile beingness inwards a futuristic public scarily recognisable every bit possessing trends in addition to attitudes presently pervading our ain society.

The Alchemical Horseman
yesteryear Jeremy James
Goldmark Books, ISBN13 9781870507776
textile leap hardcover, blocked inwards gold
RRP £15, available from www.theAlchemicalHorseman.com
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Depressed yesteryear inner noesis of his failure to realise his potential, in addition to increasingly convinced that at that spot has to live on to a greater extent than to life than the Inn of Oblivion in addition to the Nymphaeum, Xavier is laid upward to abandon the public of chemi-coffee in addition to gm-flakes, identi-chips in addition to pod mail. Prompted yesteryear an emerald-eyed girl, a vision of a Equus caballus in addition to the impromptu gift of a mass whose blank pages invite his subversive thoughts, he answers the inner challenge in addition to opens himself to transformation inwards search of peace in addition to purpose.

This allegorical bespeak is related yesteryear alternating the threads of reality in addition to fantasy – Xavier lives inwards the tertiary individual in addition to records his visions of knight, enchantress in addition to the Blue Horse inwards the kickoff – in addition to the storey culminates when the 2 intersect. Self-belief tin convey freedom, withal the ability of positive thinking in addition to the value of visualisation cannot triumph until the hear is opened upward to Truth, for nosotros each behavior inside ourselves the seeds for success or failure.

Finally, of course, the fragmented hero becomes whole, the dream reflects reality, the mystery is explained in addition to the public is laid correct on its axis. In making this transition, Xavier shows that it is possible to alter our public in addition to ourselves for the better, in addition to detect fulfilment inwards the process.

The mass is imbued amongst symbolism, in addition to references to astrology,  mythology in addition to other way of divination abound – each chapter takes its championship from a tarot card, for example – only many of these are clarified inwards the glossary in addition to the appendix.

Having enjoyed this author’s Byerley Turk, I was lured into reading The Alchemical Horseman yesteryear the hope of to a greater extent than of that musically poetic linguistic communication in addition to an equine protagonist. Initially sceptical (quests in addition to self-improvement are non my thing!) I was shortly swept away, finding the characters intriguing in addition to the storyline surprisingly compelling – altogether a real satisfactory read.

So savour the linguistic communication – maintain a lexicon unopen yesteryear if necessary – in addition to savour the ability in addition to intensity of James’s brilliantly crafted work.

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Jeremy James was born in addition to brought upward on a java plantation inwards Republic of Kenya where he developed his honey in addition to honour for the natural world.

Inspired yesteryear the nomadic travels of African camel drovers, he laid off on his ain journeying on horseback from Turkey to Wales inwards 1987: an opportunity which led to the writing of his kickoff book, Saddletramp.

Since in addition to then he has written several books, including Vagabond – his tale of riding through Eastern Europe during the collapse of communism; The Byerley Turk– a historical novel based on the truthful storey of the kickoff thoroughbred; and The Tippling Philosopher, a collection of rural brusk stories. He similar a shot lives in a remote role of Shropshire where his peaceful, unspoiled surround popular off on to inform his unique in addition to lyrical prose.

 

 

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