The first two books impressed me, but An Autumn War surpassed them, leaving me stunned and wondering where Abraham will take me in the fourth book.’

The storytelling is smooth, careful and - best of all - unpredictable. The setting is unique yet utterly believable. It is epic in scope, but character-centred. ‘There is much to love in the Long Price Quartet. If there’s any justice, this should be a contender for all the major awards.’ An Autumn War will keep you turning pages and break your heart in the bargain. This book really blows the top off, taking the world of the andat and the poets in new and unexpected directions. A Shadow in Summer was among the strongest first novels of the last decade, and A Betrayal in Winter was a terrific second book, but in An Autumn War, Abraham puts both of them in the shade. ‘Daniel Abraham gets better with every book. Junot Diaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction If you are meeting him for the first time I envy you: you are in for a remarkable journey.’ Welcome to the world of the andats, of the haunted extraordinary poets, a world where men enslave ideas, where these slaves scheme to avenge themselves, where every bad deed spawns more, a world where after the treachery, the conspiracies, the journeys, all that’s ever left in the end are the consequences. Abraham is fiercely talented, disturbingly human, breathtakingly original and even on his bad days kicks all sorts of literary ass. ‘Daniel Abraham is one of the reasons the fantasy genre continues to haunt my dreams.

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