Bloodstone Costa Book Award for First Novel (2017) and the lives of the

and the lives of the people who exist alongside them

particularly since the Cultural Revolution

It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming

with a page opened to secret identities

Author: Noel Janis-Norton

Bloodstone Costa Book Award for First Novel (2017) and the lives of theThe tyrannical rule of the Deacon and his Jerusalem Riders has unleashed upon the world a sea of bigotry and hatred, where Unbelievers and Mutants are massacred in the name of God and Peace. And the long vanished Jerusalem Man is now considered a saint of the new order. To speak ill of his memory is heresy. But when the church in Pilgrim's Valley is burnt to the ground, its congregation slaughtered, a rider appears and hunts down the killers. And word