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The Bone Season

The Bone Season Series: Book 1

By: Samantha Shannon

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Paperback | 1 March 2017 | Edition Number 1

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560 Pages

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4 x 13.1 x 19.7

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A dreamer who can start a revolution

For the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in London.

Clairvoyance in all its forms has been decreed a criminal offence, and those who practise it viciously punished. Forced underground, a clairvoyant underworld has developed, combating persecution and evading capture.

Paige Mahoney, a powerful dreamwalker operating in the Seven Dials district of London, leads a double life, using her unnaturalness illegally while hiding her gift from her father, who works for the Scion regime...

About the Author

Samantha Shannon was born in west London in 1991. She started writing at the age of fifteen. Between 2010 and 2013 she studied English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 2013 she published The Bone Season, the first in a seven book series. The Mime Order followed in 2015. Both were international bestsellers and have been translated into twenty-six languages. The film rights have been optioned by the Imaginarium Studios and 20th Century Fox. In 2014, Samantha Shannon was included on the Evening Standard's Power 1000 list. The Song Rising is her third novel.

Industry Reviews

“Truly extraordinary and thrilling”
Andy Serkis

“A new breed of women authors are claiming fantasy for their own. Leading the charge is Samantha Shannon”
Reviewer

– Harper's Bazaar “A dark and exquisitely rendered fantasy unlike anything out there. The Bone Season is a must read”
Kami Garcia, No. 1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series

“Samantha Shannon has a hugely inventive talent and an imagination with seven league boots. She's hit the ground running”
Susan Hill

“A richly dramatic and unadulterated pleasure, filled with horrors, wonders and charm”
Justina Robson, author of the Quantum Gravity series

“The book invokes both the political tyranny of George Orwell and the bucolic mythmaking of J.R.R. Tolkein”
USA Today

“A Hunger Games-esque debut”
Irish Daily Mail

“A rapid-fire wonder of a book, where clairvoyants and humans battle it out against scary monsters and super-creeps ... The Bone Season is our next Twilight”
Marie Claire

“The Bone Season is more like the novel that JK Rowling and William Gibson never teamed up to write”
Wired

“A Hunger Games vibe and a few Shades of Grey”
Vanity Fair

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