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Lose yourself again in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh.

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In the tradition of China Miéville, 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

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