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Truly extraordinary and thrilling Andy Serkis 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 A new breed of women authors are claiming fantasy for their own. Leading the charge is Samantha Shannon Harper's Bazaar 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 A dazzlingly brainy, witty and bewitching tale of outrageous courage, heroic compassion, transcendent love and the quest for freedom ... the first in a thoughtful fantasy series by a brilliant young writer Booklist Marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented British writer set to challenge the worldwide bestseller list domination of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games The British Fantasy Society The Bone Season, set in 2059, stems from Shannon's interest in works such as The Handmaid's Tale and A Clockwork Orange, which have backdrops of repressive regimes, and in John Donne's poetry Sunday Times

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 2012 the Women of the Future Awards shortlisted her for The Young Star Award. The Bone Season is her first novel and has been sold in twenty countries. Follow Samantha Shannon on Twitter @say_shannon and on her blog: www.samanthashannon.co.uk