Nights of Villjamur
Age 16 +
04 June 2010Imprint: Tor
Synopsis
A dark epic, Nights of Villjamur is the first book in Mark Charan Newton's Legends of the Red Sun fantasy series.
An ice age strikes a chain of islands, and thousands come to seek sanctuary at the gates of Villjamur. It’s a city of ancient spires and bridges, a place where banshees wail and cultists use forgotten technology. And beyond the...
Details
04 June 2010512 pages
9780330532914Imprint: Tor
Reviews
Genre labels just don’t apply here. With Nights of Villjamur Mark has managed to incorporate so many wonderfully varied ideas and themes into a decent blend of excitement and interest that the marketing department is going to have to invent a whole new section just for him.Peter F. Hamilton
A promising new writer whose prose is dynamic and whose imagination is often startling.Jeff VanderMeer
A dark epic which shows its debt to Gormenghast: death stalks the shadows and scheming, idiosyncratic characters have their own agendas. This is fantasy with vast scope and ambition… a complex, eldritch vision.Guardian
This is a promising start to a series worth pursuing.Times
