'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties' Hilary Mantel on Rotherweird

'Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold' - M.R. Carey on Rotherweird

WELCOME BACK TO ROTHERWEIRD

For four hundred years, the town of Rotherweird has stood alone, made independent from the rest of England to protect a deadly secret.

But someone is playing a very long game. An 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 Equinox.

Wynter is coming . . .

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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

"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

"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

"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

"Darkly hypnotic" - The Daily Telegraph

"I loved every single thing about it. Wyntertide perfectly continues the journey that began in Rotherweird. Highly recommended" - The Eloquent Page

"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

"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

"I'd strongly recommend you to read it, and to keep reading" - Blue Book Balloon

"Fiendishly plotted and carefully crafted" - SFCrowsnest

"Caldecott's writing is literally spellbinding" - The Digital Fix

"Well-written, an intriguing world and premise" - Cannonball Read

"Enjoyable and highly original" - Pile by the Bed

"Wonderfully inventive once again with that Heath Robinson feel that I noted last time. The characters are rich and vivid" - Books and More Books

"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

"Compelling . . . the love child of Gormenghast and Hogwarts" - Guardian on ROTHERWEIRD

"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

"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

"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!

"Highly recommended, I think novel will eventually be viewed as a modern classic" - The Eloquent Page on ROTHERWEIRD