Edward Brooke-Hitching: The Madman's Library | A Gallery from Sunday Morning | RNZ National

British author Edward Brooke-Hitching's latest book The Madman's Library makes use of 10-years research to delve into the world of unusual tomes, from a Qur'an written in the blood of Saddam Hussein and a book so small it's invisible to the human eye.

Agnes Richter jacket recto credit Prinzhorn Collection University Heidelberg

cheese book credit Ben Denzer

Prayer skull 1895 7 credit Wellcome Collection

Biggest Book of the World credit Philipe Martins

Devil default-14 credit Wellcome Collection

Louis Renard The Mermaid

Smallest book in the world credit Author's Collection

Triangular Book of St Germain cryptic credit Getty Research Institute

Edward Brooke-Hitching

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