Description
Welcome back to Rotherweird, where an ancient plot centuries in the making is about to come to fruition - and this time the forces of darkness might actually win . . .
Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader's imagination --Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of the summer . . . but someone is playing a very long game. Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside. Geryon Wynter's intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move. Everything points to one objective: the resurrection of Rotherweird's dark Elizabethan past - and to one date: the Winter Solstice. Wynter is coming . . .
Author: Andrew Caldecott
Publisher: Jo Fletcher
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781784298036
ISBN10: 1784298034
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Historical
- Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal
- Fiction | Occult & Supernatural
Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader's imagination --Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of the summer . . . but someone is playing a very long game. Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside. Geryon Wynter's intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move. Everything points to one objective: the resurrection of Rotherweird's dark Elizabethan past - and to one date: the Winter Solstice. Wynter is coming . . .
Author: Andrew Caldecott
Publisher: Jo Fletcher
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781784298036
ISBN10: 1784298034
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Historical
- Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal
- Fiction | Occult & Supernatural
About the Author
Andrew Caldecott is a practising barrister in media law, fantasy novelist, and occasional playwright. His play Higher than Babel was described as impressive by the Financial Times and a bold debut by the Independent. Driven by subsequent neglect of his dramatic talents (or by the lack of them), he turned to the fantasy novel and wrote his debut, Rotherweird.