Wyntertide (Rotherweird Series #2) - Andrew Caldecott

The sequel to the wildly inventive Rotherweird, Wyntertide returns readers to a town like no other and a mystery snaking back for centuries.

'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

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…

Described by M.R. Carey as 'Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book', Wyntertide is a welcome return to the marvellously eccentric and strange world of Andrew Caldecott’s Rotherweird. Offering glimmering echoes of Gormenghast, Edward Gorey and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Wyntertide is a festival of arcane delights; a novel to be savoured.