Release Date | 2022-06-14 |
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The Last Blade Priest | Paperback, Ebook |
Paperback ISBN | 9780857669827 |
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EBook ISBN | 9780857669834 |
£4.99 – £9.99
An absorbing and original epic fantasy with rich world-building and a wry take on genre conventions from a Betty Trask Award-winning author.
File Under: Fantasy [ Nightmare Crows | Scarred Altars | Broken Stone | Unlikely Elves ]
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Release Date | 2022-06-14 |
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The Last Blade Priest | Paperback, Ebook |
Paperback ISBN | 9780857669827 |
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EBook ISBN | 9780857669834 |
W P Wiles was born in India in 1978. He is the author of three novels: the Betty Trask Award-winning Care of Wooden Floors (2012), The Way Inn (2014), and Plume (2019). When not writing novels, he writes about architecture, and he is a regular columnist for RIBA Journal. He lives in east London.
“This gripping novel demonstrates the value of thoughtful, well-planned worldbuilding.”
– Publishers Weekly
“From beginning to end, Wiles combines vivid landscape writing and rich characterisation to powerful effect. The result is epic in every sense: The Last Blade Priest is a refreshing, subversive and wonderfully realised fantasy novel.”
– M.T. Hill, author of The Breach
“W.P. Wiles embraces and transforms the archetypes of epic fantasy with impressive ingenuity. Vivid, vital, humane and deftly told, The Last Blade Priest’s all-too-human characters and its world of dying gods, berserker cults and devastating superhuman powers will haunt your imagination long after you’ve turned the last page.”
– Paul McAuley, author of War of the Maps
“A novel of marvellous scope and inventiveness: fantasy is rarely as smart, immersive or scintillant as this.”
– Adam Roberts, author of The Thing Itself