The Man in the High Castle

Nov 6, 2025 8:27 AM

Author:Philip K. Dick,Eric Brown

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE ALLIES HAD LOST THE WAR?

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'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese.

But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutral buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies . . .

Now a major Amazon TV series, this book for fans of Robert Harris' Fatherland, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and anyone who has ever wondered 'What if . . . '

'California's own William Blake. Visionary and prophet. Novelist of ideas' Daily Telegraph

Reviews

The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet

—— Rolling Stone

California's own William Blake. Visionary and prophet. Novelist of ideas

—— Daily Telegraph

Flooded with neat aphorisms and winning vignettes…it works as a cock-eyed state-of-the-nation address after the years of Berlusconification… A blackly comic birl through a life of excess, regret and reflection

—— Glasgow Sunday Herald

A furious, ironic, idiosyncratic, unexpurgated torrent, capturing Italian modernity

—— Kirkus

Sorrentino uses this novel to deal with Italy's unstoppable descent into today's dazed, corrupted and tragically foolish reality...[in] exceptionally adventurous language

—— La Repubblica

Remarkable... It's hard to forget Tony...his image sticks in the reader's mind...he is a true hero of our times

—— L'Espresso

Make sure this novel is in your beach bag this summer

—— Monocle

One thinks of...The Tin Drum... A bracing alternative to the staleness of formula, whether on a downscale Italian tour, wandering a Brazilian shantytown, or sinking into a Manhattan mashup of showbiz and sleaze

—— BookForum

Beautiful prose...this is a challenging, thoughtful read, even for the die-hard heathen

—— Eastern Daily Press

Beard writes with sharp clarity; short unadorned sentences that contain an unforced, incisive wit....Lazarus's legend continues to fascinate in this totally original book

—— Sunday Business Post

A fascinating mixture of fiction and academic essay...using biblical sources and other, less orthodox ones, Beard weaves a compelling tale portrait of first-century Israel, of Jerusalem with its factions and sects, and of Jesus, Lazarus's enigmatic friend, as he makes his journey towards the Cross

—— Catholic Herald

I finished the book at a sitting. What makes it so gripping is Beard's limitless curiosity.

—— James Russell Blog

The approach is unusual, the narrative bold and exhilarating...this book with its melding of fiction and non-fiction, critical analysis and detective work, consolidation and controversy, is a potent combination that breathes life not only into the 'imaginative representations' of historical events but also into the possibilities of what we think a novel might be able to achieve.

—— Just William's Luck

So good it's almost off the scale for me. Brave, brilliant and utterly readable.

—— The Bookbag

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