The pilgrims
By: Will Elliott
Series: Pendulum -- 1
Publisher: Jo Fletcher; Quercus Publishing Plc
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780857381392
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Fiction; Mental health; Levaal (Imaginary place)
Description: Eric Albright, a twenty-six-year-old unemployed journalist, and Stuart Casey, a homeless old drunk, fall through a door in a graffiti-covered wall into the strange world of Levall, where a mountain-sized dragon with the powers of a god lies sleeping beneath a great white castle. Here they are the otherworlders, Pilgrims, and their lives are never going to be the same again. In the castle the sinister Lord Vous rules with an iron fist as the Project, designed to effect his transformation into an immortal spirit, nears completion. But Vous' growing madness is close to consuming him, as is his fear of the imaginary being named 'Shadow'. And the arrival of the otherworlders in Levall is about to lend substance to that fear. No one has ever seen what lies beyond the impossibly vast Wall that divides Levall, but the Pilgrims possess powers strong enough to break it down. If they do, what will enter from the other side? Will Elliott's brilliantly subversive and creative imagination twists the conventions of the genre to create an unforgettable alternate-world fantasy.
Notes: Originally published: 2011.

Includes sneak peek at Shadow, book II in the pendulum trilogy.