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I absolutely loved ''Octavian Nothing'' and cannot recommend it highly enough, but with just one caveat - stylistically, it is extremely challenging. Anderson has used eighteenth century diction and syntax throughout and while this lifts what he has written from the good to the great, it also perhaps restricts ''Octavian Nothing'' to those prepared to make an effort. Reluctant readers need not apply.

Readers might also be interested in what life was like for black people in London just a few years after the Boston Tea Party setting of ''Octavian Nothing''. If so, they could do no better than to look out [[Jupiter Williams]] by S I Martin.