Spotlight: Lost Acre – Andrew Caldecott

About the book:

Wynter is here . . .

Gervon Wynter has returned to Rotherweird and has not only taken over the town but is busy destroying the countrysiders’ life too.

Can our small band of heroes find a way to outwit a genius whose master plan is five centuries in the making?

Watch this space . . .

Published : July 25th, 2019  (Jo Fletcher Books)

About the author:

Andrew Caldecott is a QC specialising in media, defamation and libel law, as well as a novelist and occasional playwright. He represented the BBC in the Hutton Inquiry (into the death of biological warfare expert and UN weapons inspector David Kelly), the Guardian in the Leveson Inquiry (into the British press following the phone hacking scandal), and supermodel Naomi Campbell in her landmark privacy case, amongst many others.

His first produced play, Higher than Babel, was described as ‘Assured and ambitious . . . deeply impressive debut’ by Nick Curtis in the Evening Standard and ‘Vivid and absorbing and grapples with big ideas without being dry, difficult or patronising’ by Sarah Hemming, in the Financial Times, but informed by his love of history, which he studied at New College, Oxford, he was seized by the notion of a city-state hiding a cataclysmic secret: the result, Rotherweird. ‘A history-tragic-comedy all rolled into one’, says Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall, and ‘baroque, Byzantine and beautiful,’ according to M.R, Carey, author of The Girl with all the Gifts.