The Carp Castle

MacDonald Harris’s posthumously published novel is set in the 1920’s against a backdrop of airships, mysticism, erotic love and a Europe that is picking itself up after WW1.

The League of Nations is a giant airship constructed by the same factory in Germany that made the Zeppelins, and is owned by Moira, the leader of a semi-religious cult. The captain is Georg von Plautus, a Prussian WW1 Zeppelin commander who harbours a terrible secret from a bombing raid over London in 1916. Moira’s foll...