ONCE WAS WILLEM

A very English jidaigeki

David West

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 304 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author MR Carey ▸ Publisher Orbit Books MR Carey, comics writer and author of The Girl With All The Gifts, puts a fantasy spin on Seven Samurai with Once Was Willem, transposing the concept to the English village of Cosham in the twelfth century. The tale is told by Once Was Willem himself, a boy brought back from the grave by dark magic – unfortunately restored not as his former youthful self, but as a shambling revenant whose grotesque appearance spurs his parents to cast him out. The villain of the story is Cain Caradoc, a malevolent wizard plotting to sacrifice Cosham’s children in a bid to gain immortality. To oppose this vile scheme, Once Was Willem recruits six supernatural allies,…

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