Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Bone Season series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her fourth novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, was her first outside of The Bone Season series and was an international bestseller. She lives in London.

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Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire.

The mysterious Domino Programme has plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel. With Arcturus Mesarthim - her former enemy - at her side, she embarks on an adventure that will lead her from the catacombs of Paris to the glittering hallways of Versailles. Her risks promise high reward: the Parisian underworld could yield the means to escalate her rebellion to outright war.

As Scion widens its bounds and the free world trembles in its shadow, Paige must fight her own memories after her ordeal at the hands of Scion. Meanwhile, she strives to understand her bond with Arcturus, which grows stronger by the day. But there are those who know the revolution began with them - and could end with them . . .

This is an ebullient, gloriously complicated fantasy [...] the characters feel grippingly real. Shannon unravels her tangled tale in galloping prose, which will carry even the reluctant readers to the very satisfying end

Dark, embattled, highly wrought fantasy

Fabulous, epic fantasy thriller

Shannon has continued to build on this imagined world with intricacy, and Paige's voice comes through to deliver a suspenseful story

Language as rich as a figgy pudding, the best terminology in the genre and gripping, edge-of-the-seat plotting to boot

A rapid-fire wonder of a book

Had me gripped as if in a vice, keeping me hostage among the 452 pages until the end, when I was left eager for the next book

Dynamic and direct ... There is an exciting breadth to Shannon's world

A dystopian thriller that delivers

A massive, intricate story ... in [a] blisteringly paced plot

Truly extraordinary and thrilling

Slick and vivid ... Gives the fantasy genre a refreshing lease of life. The Bone Season is enough to transport even hardened sceptics of the fantasy genre into its imaginative realm

The world is so carefully constructed [...] weaved with lies and deceit and impossible to predict

Easily the most politically engaged of any of the dystopian fantasies