Andrew Taylor

A play on the Scottish play

Set in 1970, Nesbo’s version is sprawling, confused, packed with unsubtle characters and set-piece action sequences

  • Macbeth

    Jo Nesbo, trans. from Norwegian by Don Bartlett

    Hogarth, pp. 503

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