Record Number |
808034 |
ISBN |
9781784298029 (hardback) |
9781786489913 (paperback) |
Author |
Caldecott, Andrew author. |
Title |
Wyntertide / Andrew Caldecott ; illustrated by Aleksandra Laika. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus Editions, 2018. |
©2018 |
Pagination etc. |
476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Rotherweird 2 |
Summary Note |
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 . . . |
Subject |
Imaginary places -- Fiction |
Cities and towns -- England -- History -- Fiction |
Secrecy -- Fiction |
Fantasy fiction. |
Added Author |
Laika, Aleksandra illustrator. |
Shelf Location |
F CALD |