Book of the Week. In Alex Pheby's strange, darkly playful and hugely inventive fantasy Mordew, the patriarchal Master draws his magical power from the body of God, buried beneath the city. When Nathan Treeves's mother sells him to the Master it becomes apparent that Nathan has a power of his own, one that could destroy all that the Master has wrought—if only Nathan can find out how to use it. 
"Mordew is a darkly brilliant novel, extraordinary, absorbing and dream-haunting. That it succeeds as well as it does speaks to Pheby’s determination not to passively inhabit his Gormenghastly idiom but instead to lead it to its most extreme iteration, to force inventiveness and grotesqueness into every crevice of his work." —Guardian 
>>Read an extract.
>>Meat and birds. 
>>Talking dogs debate philosophy. 
>>Death/sentence. 
>>He doesn't seem to be moving his lips. 
>>Which Mordew character are you? 
>>The rewards of risk. 
>>Read Thomas's review of Pheby's psychologically unsettling first novel, Playthings. 
>>Diving deep into a disturbed mind. 
>>Pheby's second novel, Lucia, is a multivocal exploration of the tragic and complicated fate of Lucia Joyce (daughter of James Joyce).
>>Building reader communities. 

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