NOW WITH A NEW COVER FOR 2025 - A dramatic epic of power, intrigue and magic. Here, a boy is born to rule a divided city. A girl is destined to return lost magic to the world. And a prince will betray his people to win a crown. Sword Catcher is the Sunday Times bestselling first adult fantasy novel by international sensation Cassandra Clare.

‘Everything I look for in fantasy’ – George R. R. MartinTwo outcasts find themselves caught in a web of dangerous magic and dark secrets that could change the world forever . . .

From the author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare is start of a riveting epic fantasy series with expert worldbuilding, political intrigue and swordplay.

*This edition includes an exclusive extract of The Ragpicker King, the spellbinding sequel to Sword Catcher*

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One was raised to rule. One was trained to die . . .

In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, Kel is an orphan, stolen from his old impoverished life to become Prince Conor Aurelian’s body-double. As his ‘Sword Catcher’, he and Conor will become as close as brothers. Yet Kel lives for one purpose: to die for Conor.

Lin Caster is an Ashkar physician, part of a community ostracized for its rare magical abilities. After a failed assassination attempt pulls her and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, who rules Castellane’s criminal underworld. But as long-kept secrets are uncovered and forbidden attractions blossom, will their discoveries plunge their land into war – and nations into chaos?

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‘Spellbinding’ – Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House

‘A triumph of a book’ – Holly Black, No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Book of Night

‘Vivid and clever’ – Scott Lynch, bestselling author of the Gentleman Bastard sequence

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Continue the action in The Ragpicker King.

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"It's heady stuff, a novel with all the drama and yearning of Clare's Shadowhunter stories but set in a whole new world, and with the YA stabilisers taken off . . . readers risk becoming instantly addicted" - SFX