Rotherweird: Rotherweird Book I

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At Rotherweird School, no history prior to 1800 can be taught, but in the North Tower highly profitable technologies, mostly with military applications, are developed. The world-class scientists are not incomers: the Rotherweird gene pool has been rich in talent, especially in the sciences, since the town was founded. So what happened 400 years ago? Are evil forces behind this quarantined concentration of intelligence? Somebody seems to think so. I would recommend this book to people who enjoyed the first two books in the series, Rotherweirdand Wyntertide, as it is too intricately-scripted to work as a stand-alone.Rotherweird is twisted, arcane murder-mystery with shades of Deborah Harkness, Hope Mirrlees and Ben Aaronovitch, Mervyn Peake and Edward Gorey at their disturbing best.

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.

MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) The town of Rotherweird stands alone – there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, theavant gardescience and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird’s independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, butnobody, studies the town or its history.

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. Think of it as an adventure,’ replied Boris breezily, ‘good for the CV and impressing the fair sex.” In its fantastical logic, Rotherweird is always coherent, but how it speaks to the non-fantastical is often sublime. It understands history and the perils of historical amnesia. While arguing for science, it delicately distils the ethical quandaries of tinkering with Nature, summoning the spectres of agribusiness, GM foods, deforestation and species extinction with allusive, devastating simplicity: "They do many things to living things." Rotherweird series is wonderful, gothic, eccentric, and very British – a village cut off from the rest of […] Because I basically binged all three books in the Rotherweird Trilogy last month I decided to review all three of them together. I will however try my best to keep it spoiler free so you can read this review even if you haven’t read any of the books yet. As you might be able to tell from the very first sentence of this review, I absolutely loved these books. I couldn’t stop reading and just had to find out what happened next. It’s very rare for me to read a series one book after the other as I usually get a bit of series fatigue and have to slot in another book to cleanse the palate a little bit. Not with Rotherweird! I never got bored and never even thought about putting the series down for another book.loved Caldecott’s Rotherweird series – Rotherweird, Wyntertyde and Lost Acre – and loved the weirdness, the quirkiness, the Britishness of them! […] 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. 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. Andrew Caldecott > Chambers of Desmond Browne QC and Justin Rushbrooke QC > London > England | Lawyer Profile". The Legal 500 . Retrieved 17 December 2021. This lends a certain haziness to the cast, despite the vivid descriptions; a quality reinforced by Caldecott’s restless, mayfly viewpoint. Frequently – though never in the spare, subtler “old history” sections, which gracefully unravel the town’s necromantic origins - I found myself yearning for more inner time with its inhabitants, particularly those caught in the story’s gnarlier moral nodes.