Rotherweird: Rotherweird Book I

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Campbell lawyers demand 'sensitive' approach". The Guardian. 18 February 2004 . Retrieved 12 March 2022. Audible Summary: " Wynter is here.... Geryon Wynter has returned to Rotherweird and has not only taken over the town but is busy destroying the countrysiders' life too. 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....

The town of Rotherweird stands alone – there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird’s independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history. Think of it as an adventure,’ replied Boris breezily, ‘good for the CV and impressing the fair sex.” Release Date:June 16th, 2017 (Rotherweird), May 31st, 2018 (Wyntertide), May 16th, 2019 (Lost Acre)

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Nothing More Than a Press Strategy": Johnny Depp Loses Libel Suit Appeal". Vanity Fair. 25 March 2021 . Retrieved 12 March 2022. I was also aware of Caldecott, a respected QC in media law with a string of high profile cases to his name – and what appeared to be a whimsical fantasy novel seemed an unexpected direction. Intrigued by the premise and author, excited by the cover art, I had high hopes…. But what of the bigger picture? If what happened 400 years ago was not magic but science, and that science is still horribly functional, is the rest of Elizabethan cosmology still the Standard Model in Rotherweird’s reality? (There must be some strange goings-on, in that particle physics lab in the North Tower!) The possibilities are intriguing. Unlike Hogwarts magic, science is not an isolated area. The changing Standard Model of what science is shapes the way we see the world. What other realities, that we have never imagined, populate the Rotherweird continuum? Maybe we’ll find out next time. Rotherweird holds its own secret – which is revealed pretty early on in the first novel – which explains its prohibition against studying history: it contains a portal to Lost Acre, another realm or universe or plane of existence populated by monstrous creatures and containing a “mixing point” into which animals, plants and people can be sent to be merged together into grotesque forms. A collection of four stones placed in various places on a cage seem to be able to control the process and – in the sixteenth century – the mixing point is used by the gifted children to, variously, create monstrous familiars, to punish the recalcitrant and to grant power and longevity. Nestedness is woven into the book’s fabric in an almost Escherian way, evoking Tudor astrolabes, or diagrams of atomic structures. Secrets reveal secrets reveal secrets. Rotherweird, a hidden world, is full of buildings themselves hiding false ceilings and mysterious compartments. Crucially, it is a gateway to an even more hidden domain – Lost Acre – accessed by lodestones and populated by chimeric monstrosities. In turn, Lost Acre guards its own secret nucleus, a patch of “slippery sky” – a quantum, alchemical wormhole which wreaks havoc or miracles, depending on who’s using it.

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. You know what they say about judging books by their covers? Well, I did with these because they are lovely lovely covers! A twisted, arcane murder-mystery with shades of Hope Mirrlees, Ben Aaronovitch, Mervyn Peake and Edward Gorey at their disturbing best. Am I playing with the dog or is the dog playing with me?” Of course, Montaigne wrote that of a cat, but I prefer dogs.” However, whilst it is not perfect, I did enjoy Rotherweird enough to launch straight into Wyntertyde once I had finished it! Which also says something about the post-Christmas reading slump in which I often find myself in January. The third book, LostAcre, is apparently due to be released in May 2019 and, yes, I will be keeping an eye out for it. Now I know most of the characters.

Andrew Caldecott > Chambers of Desmond Browne QC and Justin Rushbrooke QC > London > England | Lawyer Profile". The Legal 500 . Retrieved 17 December 2021. There is something rather familiar within this strange concept. At times Lost Acre almost felt Edenic, especially as the various cages were hoisted into the mixing point by means of a handy tree. A tree of knowledge of good and evil, maybe. It was irksome! I only figured out who Trimble was in the second book! I did kinda get a handle on the main ones by the end. Find sources: "Andrew Caldecott"barrister– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)