The Erstwhile - Book Two in the Vorrh Trilogy

In the tradition of China Mieville, Michael Moorcock and Alasdair Gray, B. Catling's The Vorrh is literary dark fantasy which wilfully ignores boundaries, crossing over into surrealism, magic-realism, horror and steampunk. The Erstwhile is the second book in the Vorrh trilogy.

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Brian Catling's The Vorrh blew me away (along with my ideas of what fantasy novels should do) when it came out in 2012. I've just finished the second of the trilogy - The Erstwhile - and it's even better. Set in London, Germany and Africa, the book features William Blake alongside its cast of monsters and adventurers. These are luminous and visionary novels - Gormenghast reimagined by Alan Moore on opium. Alex Preston The Observer

Product details

• Authors: Brian Catling, Catling Brian
• Publisher: Coronet
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.03.2018
• EAN: 9781473636408
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-3640-8
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Vorrh Trilogy; Vorrh Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, Fantasy, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction