Lord Brocktree Jonathan Cape This is only the start

This is only the start of a series of revelations that span three generations of a distinguished aristocratic family who are not what they seem

Samuel Carver Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people

thought-provoking

'A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling

Lord Brocktree Jonathan Cape This is only the startSalamandastron, ancestral home of the Badger Lords is under threat from an enemy whose power is absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. Ungatt Trunn can make the stars fall from the sky, the very earth shake underfoot, and with a horde of vermin as numerous as the leaves in autumn, the wildcat appears unstoppable. The mountain's defences are weak. Who can save it now? Salamandastron's only hope is a badger, Lord Brocktree who is drawn to the fortress