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Deep in the forest’s mysteries: The Cloven, by Brian Catling, reviewed

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

Brian Catling’s great trilogy takes its title from The Vorrh, his first volume. This final book fulfills all the promises of the first two. It has a place beside such modern masters of the imagination as E.R. Eddison, Tolkien or Peake, and it is as completely unlike them as those three-deckers are of each other.

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