Sister Wake

the devastating and epic high fantasy phenomenon perfect for fans of Irish mythology

By: Dave Rudden

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Hardcover | 15 January 2026 | Edition Number 1

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A proud culture oppressed for centuries. An island over-run by bestial gods. And a girl with the power to raise the fallen . . .

For three hundred years the wild island of Croi? has been subject to the Empire of the Answering. Clans have been subjugated, their language outlawed, their religion reduced to the whisper of fugitive priests.

Until Croi?''s prayers are answered. The Gods return. Feral and majestic, they stride the land as colossi, throwing the Empire into chaos.

The dispossessed and the vengeful struggle for power. A ruthless priestess rallies the faithful, offering a simple choice - believe, or die - even as the empire''s Queen makes the first moves in a long and dangerous game.

But for all their machinations, one woman will decide the fate of them all . . . Sister Wake, unwilling saint of the Goddess of Death.

The first in a high fantasy trilogy, inspired by Ireland''s history of English oppression. With the help of their newly arisen gods, Croi? is finally about to fight back against the Empire of the Answering - but are the gods on their side, after all?

Industry Reviews

Sister Wake is the rare epic fantasy that hits on all levels - lushly descriptive, meticulously plotted, dizzyingly vast, and with characters that breathe and bleed with the sort of vigour that makes you look up from the page and wonder that they're not sitting right next to you - Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

Sister Wake is quite simply dazzling. The vastness of Rudden's rich world is breathtaking while his prose is vivid and exquisite. The words are alive, thrumming on the page and propelling us through this utterly compulsive story - Sophie White, award-winning author of Where I End

Rudden has masterfully crafted a layered, epic world made all the more brutal by the return of gods terrifying and unknown - David Daglish, author of The Radiant King

Two hundred-foot kaiju gods, necromancy, and anti-colonial rebellion--what more could you ask for? Dave Rudden's Sister Wake gripped me in its iron chains and carried me forward on prose as beautiful as it was riveting. I practically squeeled each time he treated me to a description of his wonderfully grotesque gods - Ryan Rose, author of Seven Recipes for Revolution

Sister Wake is a brilliant, rebellious scream of a novel with 200 foot tall pissed off gods from Celtic mythology coming for an alternate British Empire in a fever dream of an Irish revenge fantasy. A page-turning epic about people doing monstrous deeds in a desperate bid to win the war between colonizer and colony, it mercilessly shows us that in the war for sovereignty and freedom there can be no saints, only those willing to sell their very souls for victory. - R.S.A. Garcia, Nebula and Sturgeon Award winning author of The Nightward

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