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Wyntertide
- Author
- Andrew Caldecott
- Narrator
- Kris Dyer
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 31 May 2018
- Run Time
- 16 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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
(P)2018 Quercus Editions Limited
Critics Review
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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
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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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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
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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
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Darkly hypnotic
The Daily Telegraph
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I loved every single thing about it. Wyntertide perfectly continues the journey that began in Rotherweird. Highly recommended
The Eloquent Page
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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
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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
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I'd strongly recommend you to read it, and to keep reading
Blue Book Balloon
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Fiendishly plotted and carefully crafted
SFCrowsnest
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Caldecott's writing is literally spellbinding
The Digital Fix
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Well-written, an intriguing world and premise
Cannonball Read
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Enjoyable and highly original
Pile by the Bed
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Wonderfully inventive once again with that Heath Robinson feel that I noted last time. The characters are rich and vivid
Books and More Books
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Rollicking blend of historical fiction and fantasy, mixed together with an abundance of intricate (often word-related) puzzles, Wyntertide is a wonderful sequel to Rotherweird. I loved the characters, and found the curious mix of Elizabethan and modern setting and sensibility very appealing
Boffins Bookshop
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Compelling . . . the love child of Gormenghast and Hogwarts
Guardian on ROTHERWEIRD
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This novel is a remarkable achievement. It's also extremely funny, in a typically British sort of way . . . a delightful Harry Potter for grown-ups
Sunday Independent on ROTHERWEIRD
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Sublime . . . Call me greedy, but I'm already itching to return to Caldecott's universe
Irish Times on ROTHERWEIRD
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Truly, sinisterly magical. 10/10
Starburst on ROTHERWEIRD
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I LOVE this book. It just did something to me. I was utterly immersed from page one . . . This is a novel of magnificence and detail, of science and nature
FANTASTICAL LIBRARY on ROTHERWEIRD
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What an enjoyable read! So vividly written, I could visualise every winding street and twisting chimney of Rotherweird . . . If you like Ben Aaronovitch, Neil Gaiman or Susanna Clarke, this book is for you!
Book Geek Girl on ROTHERWEIRD
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Highly recommended, I think novel will eventually be viewed as a modern classic
The Eloquent Page on ROTHERWEIRD
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Details
- Author
- Andrew Caldecott
- Narrator
- Kris Dyer
- Duration
- 16 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 May 2018
- ISBN
- 9781787473010
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fantasy
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 HallWelcome 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(P)2018 Quercus Editions Limited
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