Praise for Mordew: "The future of fantasy starts here."--Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "Extraordinary . An extravagant and unnerving novel."-- The Guardian "Immensely vital--it is indeed about vitality, in both its creative and cancerous form. It's an extravagant and unnerving marvel. I eagerly await more Mordew ."--Adam Roberts "There are shades here of Philip Pullman, T.H.

White, China Miéville, Susanna Clarke, Michael Moorcock and even Lewis Carroll.You finish desperate to read more."-- The i , Summer Fiction Picks " Mordew is a Chosen One narrative, but it's one that packs in a trilogy's worth of plot while presenting us with a working-class hero who, unlike many Chosen Ones, never enjoys a moment of agency." --Ian Mond, Locus "Yes, Mordew seems to say, you could write a straightforward novel with lots of pensive dialogue and normal people, a nouveau Jamesian or Woolfian meditation on the nature of the urban poor, and leave it at that -- but why would you, when you could also astound, delight, and warp the very fabric of the text as part of fantasy-making?"-- Los Angeles Review of Books "The world of Alex Pheby's fourth novel is dizzying. a beguiling splicing of Dickensian social satire and rackety steampunk fantasy. Written with combustible verve." -- The Spectator "Gormenghasty in the best way, and bursting with invention and joyous grotesquery." -- The Bookseller "Pheby again brings Dickensian sensibilities to bear in the novel's tone, complex plot, and expansive cast.

"-- Publishers Weekly.