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Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy.God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day his desperate mother sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew.The Master derives his magical power from feeding on the corpse of God. But Nathan, despite his fear and lowly station, has his own strength―and it is greater than the Master has ever known. Great enough to destroy everything the Master has built. If only Nathan can discover how to use it.So it is that the Master begins to scheme against him―and Nathan has to fight his way through the betrayals, secrets, and vendettas of the city where God was murdered, and darkness reigns.Propulsive, compulsively readable, full of unforgettable characters and a talking dog who wants to be aphilosopher, Mordew is an epic fantasy strange, new, and terrifyingly alive. 
 About the Author 
Alex Pheby’s second novel, 
Playthings, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize; his third, 
Lucia, about the tragic life of James Joyce’s daughter, was the joint winner of 2018’s Republic of Consciousness Prize. 
Mordew is his fourth novel. Born in Essex, he grew up in Worcester, and now teaches at the University of Greenwich in London.

Mordew (Cities of the Weft, 1)

Literature & Fiction

Pheby, Alex

Genre Fiction

Tor Books

About the Author Alex Pheby’s second novel, Playthings, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize; his third, Lucia, about the tragic life of James Joyce’s daughter, was the joint winner of 2018’s Republic of Consciousness Prize. Mordew is his fourth novel. Born in Essex, he grew up in Worcester, and now teaches at the University of Greenwich in London. Review “A treat. ... The world of Alex Pheby’s fourth novel is dizzying... a beguiling splicing of Dickensian social satire and rackety steampunk fantasy. Written with combustible verve.” ―The Spectator“Beautifully rendered...Immersive, tense, full of action.” ―Irish Times“Weird and wonderful, bleak and beautiful...[Mordew] is an extraordinarily vivid piece of world-building.” ―Sunday Express“Think Great Expectations meets Gormenghast, with a cliffhanger ending that hints at a dynamic sequel.” ―Literary Review

Tor Trade

Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful occult weapon known as the Tinderbox.\nHis companions are scattered, making for Malarkoi, the city of the Mistress, the Master’s enemy. They are hoping to find welcome there, or at least safety. They find neither – and instead become embroiled in a life and death struggle against assassins, demi-gods, and the cunning plans of the Mistress.\nOnly Sirius, Nathan’s faithful magical dog, has not forgotten the boy. Bent on revenge, he returns to the shattered remains of Mordew – only to find the city morphed into an impossible mountain, swarming with monsters.\nThe stage is set for battle, sacrifice, magic and treachery in the stunning sequel to Mordew. Welcome to Malarkoi.

Malarkoi: Cities of the Weft, Book 2 (Cities of the Weft, 2)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft, 2)

TOR.

Waterblack (Cities of the Weft, 3)

A hallucinatory, fragmentary, and tragic fictional telling of one of the most fa- mous psychotherapy cases in history, A lex Pheby’s Playthings offers a visceral and darkly comic portrait of paranoid schizophrenia. Based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Playthings artfully shows the disorienting human tragedy of Schreber’s psychosis, in vertiginous prose that blurs the lines between madness and sanity.

Playthings

British & Irish

Biblioasis

A GLOBE & MAIL RECOMMENDED SUMMER 2021 READ "A writer possessed of unusual indeed, extraordinary powers... Read [Lucia] with your eyes wide open."--The Guardian She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket, writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett's lover, an aspiring writer--what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and subsequent hospitalization: after her death, her nephew Stephen, executor of the Joyce estate, burned her letters and medical records, erasing her not only from her father's legacy, but from her own existence in the world as well. To tell the story of a life redacted, Alex Pheby assumes not Lucia Joyce's lost voice, but the perspectives of the men around her, layering a series of narratives about those on the edges of her life to create a portrait of the lost woman in silhouette. As much a critique of male violence and the long history of misogyny in women's health, an in-absentia illustration of the fate of inconvenient women as the story of a single life, Lucia is an ethical and empathetic creative act and a moving in memoriam to a woman whose experiences we can only imagine.

Lucia

Literary

Mordew (1)

INCULTEDERMARGE

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