Arto Paaslinna: The Howling Miller [2018] paperback ZATHR The opera singer Sophia Simeonidis

The opera singer Sophia Simeonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house

Reaching for the suitcase under her mother's bed

'We had 700 bad days - and then one good day

Then a star over a thousand light years away suddenly vanishes

Shakepearean soliloquies and intricate Elizabethan illustrations will leave more than a few readers convinced that the Star Wars saga sprang straight from the Bard's quill

Arto Paaslinna: The Howling Miller [2018] paperback ZATHR The opera singer Sophia SimeonidisWhen Gunnar Huttunen turns up in a small village to restore its run down mill, its inhabitants are wary. Gunnar is big. He's a bit odd. And, strangest of all, he howls wildly at night. If Gunnar is different, then he must be mad, the villagers decide. Hounded from his home, he must find a way to survive the wilds of nature and the greater savagery of civilization. The Howling Miller is a dark fairytale of community, conformity and our place in the