Wyntertide: Rotherweird Book II: 2 - Hardcover

Caldecott, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784298026 ISBN 13: 9781784298029

Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books, 2018

Synopsis

'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

Welcome back to Rotherweird.

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 . . .

'Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book' M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl With All The Gifts

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Review

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, bestselling author of The Girl With All the Gifts)

Beautifully handled sequel that cooks up a banquet of dark delights. Once again, we are captivated by the compelling alchemy of plot, place and people: the quirks, the mysteries, the saintliness and the sheer bloody evil (Daily Mail)

To his lawyerly eye for detail he adds a conjurer's flourish in Wyntertide, the darkly hypnotic sequel to last year's bestseller Rotherweird . . . Rotherweird, Caldecott's fictional English town, has antecedents in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, C S Lewis's Narnia books and, inevitably, a certain bespectacled boy-wizard (Sunday Telegraph)

Darkly hypnotic (Ed Power The Daily Telegraph 2018-08-04)

I loved every single thing about it. Wyntertide perfectly continues the journey that began in Rotherweird. Highly recommended (The Eloquent Page)

Wyntertide builds on all the best parts of its predecessor, introducing the reader to the wider history of Rotherweird, while relishing its small town drama (SciFiNow)

Even better than the first book . . . Seamlessly structured and reads at a galumphing pace . . . As Wynter's go, this is one cold snap that's very welcome indeed. 10/10 (Starburst)

I'd strongly recommend you to read it, and to keep reading (Blue Book Balloon)

Fiendishly plotted and carefully crafted (SFCrowsnest)

Book 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 . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784298026
• ISBN 13: 9781784298029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496