Thanks for visiting The Meaning of Night website.

I hope readers of the novel will enjoy browsing the images and other material gathered together on the site, and that they'll provide some entertaining insights into the world of the novel's narrator, Edward Glyver.

What I've tried to do in The Meaning of Night is to create an imagined world that's solid and circumstantial, but which exists somewhere apart from the mundane and the everyday, a world in which extraordinary things happen, but which still remains plausible and somehow real.

The novel is also a homage to the primal power of story, and to the great storytellers I admire – people like Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rafael Sabatini. These are the writers I return to again and again, and who have inspired The Meaning of Night. If I've succeeded in creating a story that grips the reader from the first line to the last, then I'll feel I've done my job.

So if you've already read the novel – thank you. If you haven't, I hope you will soon.

Best wishes,

Michael Cox