The Field of the Cloth of Gold is a novel by English author Magnus Mills, published in 2015 by Bloomsbury it was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize that year.

Further groups arrive and threaten the delicate balance of power, then Hippo – clad in just a coarse blanket brings a message that he proclaims all must hear...

[2][3][4] In an interview with BOMB magazine Mills explains "It started when I began considering the actual Field of the Cloth of Gold in France, which is where Henry VIII met Francis I.

"[7] But some had reservations, Edward Docx in The Guardian posits that "Mills’ diffident stylistic and aesthetic tendencies are working against the bold vitality of his free-thinking intellectual reach.

and he concludes, "You only have to think of, say, Golding’s Lord of the Flies or Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians to realise what allegorical writing is capable of and how limited Mills is choosing to make things.