Aidan Cottrell-Boyce was born in Liverpool in 1987. He completed his PhD at the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge in 2018. During his doctoral studies he ran as a Parliamentary candidate for the Green Party. He is the author of two academic books: Jewish Christians in Puritan England (2020) and Israelism in Modern Britain (2021).
Cottrell-Boyce's debut novel is The End of Nightwork.
At the Guardian the author tagged ten favorite novels and stories about prophets, including:
Elijah in Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleRead about the other entries on the list.
Elijah only appears quite briefly, on the dock in Nantucket as Ishmael and Queequeg are about to board the Pequod. When they tell Elijah they are carrying articles to join the crew, he asks if there is “anything down there about your souls?” At the toughest moments in the voyage, poor old Ishmael goes back and back to Elijah’s gnomic caution. “The ragged Elijah’s diabolical incoherences are uninvitedly recurring to me,” he says. Like all great prophecies, Elijah’s warning about the future seems to shape that future.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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