Arcadia
By (Author) Iain Pears
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
24th August 2016
2nd June 2016
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Science fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016
Paperback
736
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 44mm
478g
Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers.
April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat -- and instead finds herself in a different world.
Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers and prophecies. But is this world real -- and what happens if Rosie decides to stay
Meanwhile, a rebellious scientist is trying to prove that time does not even exist -- with potentially devastating consequences.As the three worlds come together, one question arises: who controls the future -- or the past...
Iain Pears was born in Coventry in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio and Stone's Fall. He has also written several highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects.