Mervyn Peake: Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
- Artist: Mervyn Peake
- Published: 2009
- Publisher: Walker Books, London
- Edition: Special Anniversary Edition
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 30cm
- Pages: 48
- Illustrations: Illustrated throughout in colour
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A special 70th anniversary edition of the cult novelist Mervyn Peake's book Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Includes a new introduction by Peakes son, Fabian.
Captain Slaughterboard is the most ferocious and wicked pirate you could ever imagine. He likes nothing better than cutting people up with his cutlass or making them walk the plank. Then one day, on a remote island, he spies a strange Yellow Creature – and from that time on, he's a changed man. How he loves the Yellow Creature! They become the best of friends, always together, sailing the oceans. But will Captain Slaughterboard ever drop anchor for good?
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Artists Biography
Mervyn Peake was born in China in 1911 of medical missionary parents. He began to draw, paint and write stories at an early age and his first book of poems, Shapes and Sounds, was published in 1941.
Peake is probably best known for his Titus novels — Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone — but other well known poetry collections include: The Glassblowers and The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb.
Peake married Maeve Gilmore in 1937 and was later awarded the W.H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Mervyn Peake died after suffering a long illness in 1968.
