'We are a cuckoo in the nest, but the cuckoo has grown fat and diseased, and is ripe for the picking.'
England, 1901: Edward Elgar and A.C. Benson write "Land of Hope and Glory", one of the most rabble-rousing, upper-lip-stiffening anthems ever to grace sheet music. But what was behind it? Ambition? Money? The sheer joy of music? Wrong on all counts. Sometimes it takes a little more to find inspiration. Like a matter of national security. Like discovering you are England's last hope.
Like the Old Ones are coming.
History gets twisted into a shape resembling Armageddon in the latest from the author of Stairway to Hell and the Mangel Series.
PRAISE FOR CHARLIE WILLIAMS
"So original that other writers must be gnashing their teeth in jealousy"
- The Guardian
"Charlie Williams has created a stunningly original noir world of his own"
- Jason Starr
"Deserves attention for sheer originality and complete disregard for conventional plot"
- Sunday Business Post
"Possibly the best British writer working today. He is the ideal adult humourist - someone whose jokes kick for the gut and often say far more than you realise upon a first reading - and he is also an astute modern commentator, someone with something to say about the darkness that is modern life"
- Russel D McLean
"Even through all of his offbeat humour, there is no mistaking that Charlie Williams is a writer who has something to say"
- Nicholas Blincoe
Genre: Science Fiction
England, 1901: Edward Elgar and A.C. Benson write "Land of Hope and Glory", one of the most rabble-rousing, upper-lip-stiffening anthems ever to grace sheet music. But what was behind it? Ambition? Money? The sheer joy of music? Wrong on all counts. Sometimes it takes a little more to find inspiration. Like a matter of national security. Like discovering you are England's last hope.
Like the Old Ones are coming.
History gets twisted into a shape resembling Armageddon in the latest from the author of Stairway to Hell and the Mangel Series.
PRAISE FOR CHARLIE WILLIAMS
"So original that other writers must be gnashing their teeth in jealousy"
- The Guardian
"Charlie Williams has created a stunningly original noir world of his own"
- Jason Starr
"Deserves attention for sheer originality and complete disregard for conventional plot"
- Sunday Business Post
"Possibly the best British writer working today. He is the ideal adult humourist - someone whose jokes kick for the gut and often say far more than you realise upon a first reading - and he is also an astute modern commentator, someone with something to say about the darkness that is modern life"
- Russel D McLean
"Even through all of his offbeat humour, there is no mistaking that Charlie Williams is a writer who has something to say"
- Nicholas Blincoe
Genre: Science Fiction
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