- Published: 14 February 2013
- ISBN: 9781448152445
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
The Emperor of all Things
- Published: 14 February 2013
- ISBN: 9781448152445
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
An excitingly and brilliantly realised, poetically written tale of magic, subterfuge and intrigue. Not to mention clocks.
SFFWORLD
Witcover conjuers an enlightenment-punk vision of England, before taking detours to the Alps, subterranean London and the utterly fantastic. ****
SFX
Witcover's prose is playful yet persuasive...unrestrained by the conventions of any one genre...segueing seamlessly from wonder, whimsy and conspiracy to intrigue, espionage and action...thrilling.
TOR.COM
A hugely entertaining read...comparisons to Neil Stephenson and Susanna Clarke are only very slightly premature. As with the finest timepiece, The Emperor of All Things is ultimately a rather beautiful thing.
Independent on Sunday
Vividly evokes an authentically dangerous, dirty and smelly 18th century London Henry Fielding would recognize. . . a real page-turner which had me gripped
HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW
A unique, imaginative, twister of a book, which is a wondrously inventive
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