A Clockwork River

Lower Rhumbsford is a city far removed from its glory days. On the banks of the great River Rhumb, its founding fathers channelled the river\'s mighty flow into a subterranean labyrinth of pipes, valves and sluices, a feat of hydraulic prowess that would come to power an empire. But a thousand years have passed since then, and something is wrong: the pipes are leaking, the valves stuck, the sluices silted, and the once-torrential Rhumb has been reduced to a sluggish trickle. The fortunes of the Locke family, descendants of the city\'s most celebrated engineer, are similarly reduced. In a once-fashionable quarter of the once-great city, siblings Samuel and Briony Locke are about to be drawn into a web of ancestral secrets and imperial intrigues, as a ruthless new power arises... Reviews for A Clockwork River: \'Exuberant isn\'t often a word you\'d apply to fantasy novels, but A Clockwork River rushes along at a pace to match the waterway at its heart\' SFX \'Delightfully weird and clever\' Grimdark Magazine \'Oh, just plunge into this \"hydro-punk\" fantasy novel, will you\' The Times Σελίδες: 736, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1101, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm