The Night Of The Rambler

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In 1967, 16 men from Anguilla - a forgotten island in the Caribbean - set sail aboard The Rambler to make the night-time journey to St. Kitts, where they intended to carry out a coup d'etat and install a new government. Set against the turbulent background of world politics in the 60s and loosely based on the historical facts of the Anguilla Revolution, The Night of the Rambler tells their story. It touches upon universal topics of freedom and self-determination with humour and sensibility, creating an alternate reality informed by real life.

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The Night of the Rambler is revolutionary, a reliquary, an impressionist tale of men who are by turns melancholy, raging, and often comic, their voices unique to this place and given a singular story.
--Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here

This is a fine novel, a surprising novel, perhaps the first true novel I have read about the nature of revolutions. The Night of the Rambler is ambitious, smart, and successful. It raises all sorts of questions about what revolutions want, how revolutions fail, and why revolutions are necessary--challenging all the while how history remembers them.
--Percival Everett, author of Erasure

The Night of the Rambler is exceptional. Riveting, deeply thoughtful, and constantly inventive, Montague Kobb's novel is part literary thriller, part revolutionary study, part epic historical narrative. Altogether, it makes for one profound read.
--Joe Meno, author of Office Girl and Hairstyles of the Damned

The Night of the Rambler is revolutionary, a reliquary, an impressionist tale of men who are by turns melancholy, raging, and often comic, their voices unique to this place and given a singular story.
--Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here

This is a fine novel, a surprising novel, perhaps the first true novel I have read about the nature of revolutions. The Night of the Rambler is ambitious, smart, and successful. It raises all sorts of questions about what revolutions want, how revolutions fail, and why revolutions are necessary--challenging all the while how history remembers them.
--Percival Everett, author of Erasure

The Night of the Rambler is exceptional. Riveting, deeply thoughtful, and constantly inventive, Montague Kobb's novel is part literary thriller, part revolutionary study, part epic historical narrative. Altogether, it makes for one profound read.
--Joe Meno, author of Office Girl and Hairstyles of the Damned

Author Bio

Montague Kobb was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and for the past decade has resided at different times in Bristol, Leeds, London, and Munich. He has had close ties to the Caribbean island of Anguilla, the setting for his debut novel, for over twenty-five years. He maintains a regular literary column in the WEEKender supplement of Sint Maarten's Daily Herald and his work has been published in Anguilla, Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Venezuela, Spain, and the United Kingdom.