{"product_id":"a-clockwork-river-j-s-emery-9781800249943","title":"A Clockwork River","description":"Lower Rhumbsford is a city far removed from its glory days. On the banks of the great River Rhumb, its founding fathers channelled the river's mighty flow into a subterranean labyrinth of pipes, valves and sluices, a feat of hydraulic prowess that would come to power an empire. But a thousand years have passed since then, and something is wrong: the pipes are leaking, the valves stuck, the sluices silted, and the once-torrential Rhumb has been reduced to a sluggish trickle.\nThe fortunes of the Locke family, descendants of the city's most celebrated engineer, are similarly reduced. In a once-fashionable quarter of the once-great city, siblings Samuel and Briony Locke are about to be drawn into a web of ancestral secrets and imperial intrigues, as a ruthless new power arises...\nReviews for A Clockwork River:\n'Exuberant isn't often a word you'd apply to fantasy novels, but A Clockwork River rushes along at a pace to match the waterway at its heart' SFX\n'Delightfully weird and clever' Grimdark Magazine\n'Oh, just plunge into this \"hydro-punk\" fantasy novel, will you' The Times","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360130597152,"sku":"9781800249943","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781800249943.jpg?v=1781034615","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/a-clockwork-river-j-s-emery-9781800249943","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}