Fair to say, I’ve not only enjoyed each and every instalment in the series, but there hasn’t been a single one of the novels that I’ve closed without first having learnt at least some historical factoid that I didn’t already know, often something I hadn’t even begun to conceptualise. It is, in short, a supernatural and historical tour de force, and a great addition to a series which has been broadly acknowledged as a huge success, and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of both the genre and the local history it brings forth in the process.
In the case of this latest instalment, Amongst Our Weapons, we are treated to a supernatural romp that takes the reader from London to Manchester and back, and touches on the use of the weaponization of the occult in Nazi Germany, a brief but insightful history of Oliver Cromwell’s treatment of the Jews in Commonwealth England, a new take on the Spanish Inquisition (complete with the almost obligatory Monty Python references), and the odd key detail on medieval smithing techniques. With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris.The latest in his Rivers of London novels, which follow a close-knit team of specialist London cops as they battle the supernatural while gaining tantalising glimpses into London’s past, is now available – the twelfth instalment, if one ignores a parallel series of graphic novels that take the Rivers universe into the low twenties. So called because the series centres around the forgotten waterways of London, each with its own, often quirky spiritual personification, from Old Man Thames down through the genius loci of smaller tributaries such as the Tyburn and the Fleet, each bringing with it another aspect of the city’s shrouded past, and building to form a coherent and convincing underpinning for the magical traditions and practices upon which Aaronovitch has built his various tales.
Discover what’s haunting a lonely motorway service station, who still wanders the shelves of a popular London bookshop, and what exactly happened to the River Lugg… Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. This is a must read for any Rivers of London fan. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time.Įach tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world.
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