The Coil of Carne

Coil and Carne is a work of fiction by English journalist, novelist, and poet William Arthur Dunkerley who wrote it under his famous pseudonym, John Oxenham. The book revolves around several themes and events such as inheritance and succession, identity, brotherhood, and the Crimean War. Dunkerley is best known for his 1897 crime fiction A Mystery of the Underground and as a founder of The Idler in February 1892 with Robert Barr, a monthly public interest magazine and one of the most popular during that period. Excerpt from Coil and Carne: «If by any chance you should ever sail on a low ebb-tide along a certain western coast, you will, if you are of a receptive humour and new to the district, receive a somewhat startling impression of the dignity of the absolutely flat.»