Robin Jarvis’s latest creation is a world set in an alternate past – in a genre that can only be described as Scyence Fyctione! This strangely familiar Britain consists of ninety-three individual ‘blessed isles’ floating in the deep darkness and the story begins in December in the Gloriana Kalendar, when Elizabeth Tudor has reigned for one hundred and seventy-eight years.
Into this world – a place with no animals and little technology – comes a stranger, Brindle. No one knows where he’s from, or how he’s arrived. But he brings strange implements and practices, and he’s about to change things forever...
Robin Jarvis was born in Liverpool and grew up in Warrington. After a degree course in graphic design he worked in television making model monsters and puppets. In due course he created characters of his own which inspired him to start writing about them. He swiftly acquired a reputation as one of today’s most popular storytellers with his bestselling Deptford Mice series.