Overview

The Nameless Land is a metaphysical novel blending stream-of-consciousness with surreal adventure. Following on from Anastasia's Midnight Song, it continues the story of Rupert Lux and Anastasia T. Grace-two troubled souls navigating a dreamlike landscape where reality slips. Rupert, a young New Zealander working nights at a Sinai hotel, is tormented by a daemon lodged in his eye-a delusion echoing Anastasia's earlier torment by spectral creatures. Anastasia, now blind, arrives in Sinai on a quest for lost treasure, guided by a Spiritualist Society. She longs to heal and to love, and wonders if Rupert might be the one. But Rupert is pursued by mysterious women who blur into one another and vanish without warning. Haunted by childhood trauma, he doubts he's worthy of love. Anastasia, calm but conflicted, finds herself reluctantly dowsing for treasure-only to uncover something that carries an ominous charge. Together, they spiral through hallucinations and shifting realities. Their journey is both outer and inner, revealing deep emotional wounds beneath the chaos. Strange, mystical, and fast-paced, this novel immerses the reader in a disorienting yet compelling exploration of madness and meaning.

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'Poetically written and deeply engrossing, this novel transports its audience into an imagistic realm entirely its own. The characters Laszlo has crafted are vivid and relatable. Dreamlike and smooth, this novel is an exciting, gripping read, an enthralling historical thriller that bends the imagination as well as the genre's typical conventions. Booklovers looking for a new type of adventure will appreciate this novel.' - RECOMMENDED by the US Review'An intriguing, atmospheric, historical adventure with well-crafted characters that pulls the reader into their world.' - Kevin Berry, author of ""The Quake City Investigations series and more.

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M. Laszlo is the pseudonym of a reclusive author living in Bath, Ohio. M. Laszlo has lived and worked all over the world, and he has kept exhaustive journals and idea books corresponding to each location and post. It is said that the maniacal habit began in childhood during summer vacations-when his family began renting out Robert Lowell's family home in Castine, Maine. Rumor has it he still possesses those childhood diaries and plans to release a trilogy set in the Pine Tree State. The habit continued into the 1980s when he lived in London, England (the summer of 1985.) The idea books and journals from that summer inspired his first work The Phantom Glare of Day published by the hybrid Spark Press in 2022. The habit continued into the 1990s when he lived in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem and worked as a night clerk in a Palestinian youth hostel. In recent years, he revisited that very journal/idea book and based Anastasia's Midnight Song on the characters, topics, and themes contained within the writings. At the end of the decade, M. Laszlo attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and earned an M.F.A degree in poetry. During his time in New York, he kept the idea books and journals that formed the basis of his second release, On the Threshold, published by the acclaimed Australian hybrid now known as Alkira. That house released Anastasia's Midnight Song on 17 January 2025. The Nameless Land serves as its sequel. M. Laszlo has lived and worked in New York City, East Jerusalem, and several other cities around the world. While living in the Middle East, he worked for Harvard University's Semitic Museum. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio and an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

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