B Catling: The Erstwhile [2018] paperback ZIPOL poised in a permanent defensive

poised in a permanent defensive crouch as it fights one invader after another

but many of our problems remain the same

The eighth laugh-out-loud

to avoid the attention of greater powers

weaving a breakneck plot through a sumptuously dangerous world

B Catling: The Erstwhile [2018] paperback ZIPOL poised in a permanent defensiveThe Vorrh is a vast unmapped and very mysterious jungle in Africa. No one comes out of it in one piece. Survivors report strange, mind bending phenomena and horrific monsters. It is rumoured that the Garden of Eden still exists somewhere in the middle of it. In The Erstwhile it transpires that some angels have escaped Eden and the Vorrh and are living in hiding in London, some in disguise as lunatics in Bedlam. It's also revealed that William Blake, a