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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>This is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels.</b> <p/>This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate. <p/>As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin. <p/><b>ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A joy to read, it is bursting at the seams with ideas. <i>The Year of Our War </i>is the first book that makes you believe New Weird actually is a movement, rather than a bunch of books China Mieville likes. A Mieville quote appears prominently on the cover where he describes the book as thoughtful, exuberant, incredibly inventive, funny but never whimsical or mannered. This is true and it doubles as a kind of manifesto pledge for New Weird--<b>SF SITE</b><br><br>A stunning fantasy, and the most incredible thing about it is that it is a first novel... The setting is impeccably realised, with a deftness of touch and a genius for description which would be impressive in an author of considerably greater experience - of the current crop of British fantasy writers, only China MiÃ(c)ville can touch this level of brilliance. In fifty years time, people are still going to be reading this book and talking about it the way we talk about Gormengast--<b>INK MAGAZINE</b><br><br>Honest-to-god unputdownable. A blistering debut<br><br>Steph Swainston's writing is as elegantly superior to most other fantasy as a samurai sword is to a flint dagger<br><br>Swainston combines light and dark, gore and grime with cheeky humour--<b>SFX</b><br><br>Swainston paints a world that is vividly rendered, detailed and surprisingly gritty. Imaginative, inventive and wholly thrilling stuff--<b>SCI FI NOW</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Steph Swainston is a qualified archaeologist with a degree from Cambridge and a research degree. She worked as archaeologist for six years, working on the dig that researched the oldest recorded burial site in the UK, before working as an information scientist. She lives in Wokingham.

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