{"title":"Books by Andrew Caldecott","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781529415469","title":"Momenticon","description":"The world has become a dangerous place: the atmosphere has turned toxic, destroying almost all life, and most of humanity too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Survivors live in domes protected by chitin shields, serving one or other of the last two great companies. A long period of uneasy collaboration between Tempestas and Genrich is about to end, and they have very different visions for mankind's future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Far from these centres of power stands the Museum Dome, home to mankind's finest paintings and artifacts and their curator, a young man, Fogg, who has laboured for three years without a single visitor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Then a single mysterious pill - a momenticon - appears in the Museum and  triggers a series of bewildering events, embroiling Fogg and his unexpected new companions in a desperate fight against the dark forces which threaten to overwhelm all that remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And time is running out.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128640635058,"sku":"9781529415469","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529415469_e97a2ad4-2e57-428b-9865-b4d916986dae.jpg?v=1786023454"},{"product_id":"9781784297633","title":"Rotherweird","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen an Outsider arrives, a man of unparallelled wealth and power, enough to buy the whole of Rotherweird - deeply buried secrets and all . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Welcome to Rotherweird.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205046665394,"sku":"9781784297633","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784297633_6c49ed6a-9f74-4dee-8d07-b754bd81081e.jpg?v=1786025430"},{"product_id":"9781784298036","title":"Wyntertide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome back to Rotherweird, where an ancient plot centuries in the making is about to come to fruition - and this time the forces of darkness might actually win . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn. Line by line, silent and adroit, it opens a series of trap-doors in the reader's imagination\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir 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 \u003ci\u003every \u003c\/i\u003elong game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisturbing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeryon Wynter's intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverything points to one objective: the resurrection of Rotherweird's dark Elizabethan past - and to one date: the Winter Solstice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWynter is coming . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205074387122,"sku":"9781784298036","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784298036_b80ea2c5-a8cd-462d-9192-46857edc7e15.jpg?v=1786025437"},{"product_id":"9781529415476","title":"Simul","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Andrew Caldecott, the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD, comes the jaw-dropping conclusion of the MOMENTICON duology - an epic adventure like no other!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Remember Simul' - the last words of a dying man, and the key to mankind's survival.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Words which take Morag, Fogg and their friends on a wild ride through caverns and over mountains, into old paintings, to a university unlike any other and up the lethal Tower of No Return. A ride where mythical beasts, legendary monster-hunters and a corrupt establishment lie in wait . . . while the weather-watchers look on and bide their time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's a race against extinction too . . . for nature herself is bent on vengeance.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685707424117,"sku":"9781529415490","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43595593646258,"sku":"9781529415476","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529415490.jpg?v=1792598865"},{"product_id":"9781784298050","title":"Lost Acre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Wynter is here, the brilliant Elizabethan mystic has achieved the impossible and returned to present-day Rotherweird--and now his ultimate goal is within reach...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeryon Wynter, the brilliant Elizabethan mystic, has achieved resurrection and returned to present-day Rotherweird. But after the chaos of Election Day, how can a stranger from another time wrest control? And for what fell purpose is Wynter back?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis dark conspiracy reaches its climax in this unique corner of England, where the study of history is forbidden and neither friend nor foe are quite what they seem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stakes could not be higher, for at the endgame, not only Rotherweird is under threat. The future of mankind itself hangs in the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn\" --Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWolf Hall \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eRotherweird \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305284481397,"sku":"9781784298050","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784298050_653ca11b-3e12-442b-9809-a20d58671346.jpg?v=1786025437"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-andrew-caldecott.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}