Rotherweird

Author(s): Andrew Caldecott

Fantasy Science Fiction Horror

'A book with special and dangerous properties' Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall


'Enthralling' M.R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl With All the Gifts


'An imaginative tour de force' The Times


1558: Twelve children, gifted far beyond their years, are banished by their Tudor queen to the town of Rotherweird. Some say they are the golden generation; some say the devil's spawn. But everyone knows they are something to be revered - and feared.


Four and a half centuries on, cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I and still bound by its ancient laws, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history.


Then an Outsider arrives, a man of unparallelled wealth and power, enough to buy the whole of Rotherweird - deeply buried secrets and all . . .


Welcome to Rotherweird.


'A remarkable achievement' Sunday Independent


'Compelling' Guardian

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A history-tragic-comedy all rolled into one, Rotherweird is intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book not unlike other books, but with special and dangerous properties. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader's imagination Hilary Mantel, two-time Man Booker prize winner Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book M R Carey, author of the bestselling The Girl With All The Gifts Assured and ambitious ... deeply impressive debut Nick Curtis, Evening Standard on Higher than Babel Vivid and absorbing and grapples with big ideas without being dry, difficult or patronising Sarah Hemming, Financial Times on Higher than Babel

General Fields

  • : 9781786486554
  • : Quercus
  • : Quercus
  • : 0.618
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 464
  • : Illustrated edition
  • : Paperback
  • : Andrew Caldecott