Gormenghast part 5. Fuchsia Groan meets Steerpike - Gormenghast - BBC iPlayer (Global) Song of Titus - Gormenghast soundtrack. Mervyn Peake. Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children (Letters from a Lost Uncle), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye, a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.
In 2008, The Times named Peake among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[1] Early life[edit] Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling (Lushan) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution and the founding of the Republic of China. His father Ernest Cromwell Peake was a medical missionary doctor with the London Missionary Society of the Congregationalist tradition and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Powell, had come to China as a missionary assistant.