Rotherweird

Author(s): Andrew Caldecott

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'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

Andrew Caldecott is a QC specialising in media, defamation and libel law, as well as a novelist and occasional playwright. He represented the BBC in the Hutton Inquiry (into the death of biological warfare expert and UN weapons inspector David Kelly), the Guardian in the Leveson Inquiry (into the British press following the phone hacking scandal), and supermodel Naomi Campbell in her landmark privacy case, amongst many others. His first produced play, Higher than Babel, was described as 'Assured and ambitious ... deeply impressive debut' by Nick Curtis in the Evening Standard and 'Vivid and absorbing and grapples with big ideas without being dry, difficult or patronising' by Sarah Hemming, in the Financial Times, but informed by his love of history, which he studied at New College, Oxford, he was seized by the notion of a city-state hiding a cataclysmic secret: the result, Rotherweird. 'A history-tragic-comedy all rolled into one', says Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall, and 'baroque, Byzantine and beautiful,' according to M.R, Carey, author of The Girl with all the Gifts. A sequel, Wyntertide, is currently taking shape. Sasha Laika studied figurative art in Moscow, followed by a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration in the UK. A London-based artist for the last 10 years, Sasha creates highly intricate works that draw on imagery from mythology, folklore and religious iconography. Her works are inhabited by mystical creatures that morph between human and animal, and exist in transition somewhere between the worlds of fantasy and reality. She considers Rotherweird the perfect subject for her debut work as a book illustrator.

General Fields

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

Special Fields

  • : Andrew Caldecott
  • : Paperback
  • : Illustrated edition
  • : Sasha Laika
  • : en
  • : 823.92
  • : 464
  • : 12