Prophecy of Ravens - Softcover

Blakemore, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908773995 ISBN 13: 9781908773999

Publisher: Iponymous, 2015

Synopsis

KILLER BUG ESCAPES LAB Authorities in the US have confirmed that the deadly virus now sweeping through California escaped from a laboratory. LOCKED IN WITH THE PLAGUE Five brave doctors, sixteen courageous nurses, ten plucky health workers are sacrificing their lives at the Princess Diana Hospital, Leeds, for us. By the time you read this, they may already have been taken by the Superflu plague sweeping through our country. TWO MILLENNIA – AND NOW IT’S THE END We knew it would happen. Great Britain’s population has dwindled to a few million, as has almost every other country’s. We knew there was no health service there and that all telecommunications, food supplies, the currency and the transport system had broken down. But we clung to hopes – hopes that one day the Old Country would rise again. That prospect now looks very remote indeed. The evacuation of London’s remaining population was permitted to allow the dwindling numbers of immune survivors of the Second Pandemic to escape. The King and Prince George have been moved to safety in a biohazard refuge in Oxford... The Third Pandemic Threat... End of the global Internet... Return to barter economy... This is Britain sixty years from now – a land slowly recovering, like the rest of the world, from three devastating epidemics. It’s an island of only a few million people. It faces the prospect of a slide back into a new medieval age: a land of dense forests, superstition and darkness – a land of ravens. Lara Johnson is the youngest-ever high court judge to be appointed in the city of New Warwick. In the company of a young woman reporter, Star Edkin, Lara decides to set off on a final quest to find her missing husband. They travel through a country on the brink of rebellion and fraught with the dangers of a nuclear disaster. “A genuinely unsettling dystopian novel...prescient to the degree that today’s newspaper headlines accurately mirror the plot...an ambitious and addictive novel” SUE SAVITT, Faber & Faber

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About the Author

Ken Blakemore grew up in northern England and now lives in Swansea. He first worked as a teacher in West Africa, where at one point he got mixed up in a military coup and had to escape across the border from Ghana to Burkina Faso. He has travelled extensively around Europe, Africa, India, the USA and Australia. After spells of casual work as a hotel night porter and in a slaughterhouse, a steam laundry and as a funeral director’s assistant (his favourite), he finished a PhD on African education and obtained a job as a university lecturer. He has worked in universities in the English Midlands and in Los Angeles, London and South Wales and has written a wide range of academic texts and articles, including a book on African-Caribbean and Asian migrants to the UK which won the Seebohm Book of the Year Trophy in 1995. In 2006 he obtained an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Swansea University and has been a full-time writer since 2007. His performed plays include Half Marx, Love Bytes and Human Studies (the latter a BBC Radio 4 production). He has also published poetry and a popular childhood memoir, Sunnyside Down. Prophecy of Ravens is his first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Iponymous
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1908773995
• ISBN 13: 9781908773999
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352