The international bestseller
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-eight countries. Follow Samantha Shannon on Twitter @say_shannon and on her blog: www.samanthashannon.co.uk
Truly extraordinary and thrilling
*Andy Serkis*
A new breed of women authors are claiming fantasy for their own.
Leading the charge is Samantha Shannon
*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*
The Bone Season plots out a criminal underworld in a future where
clairvoyancy exists; part fantasy, part dystopia, all intrigue.
It’s a world of impressive scope, accompanied by Tolkienesque
appendices, glossaries, maps and all
*Vogue*
It has conviction in spades ... The Bone Season has the kids vs
dystopia kick of The Hunger Games, but while it’s better written
... It’s also got the star-crossed romance of Twilight
*SFX Magazine*
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*
A complex and epic dystopia
*Bookseller*
Shannon writes so well that you stay interested, intrigued by the
knife-edge motivation of character’s with “six-seater lips” whose
“high-collard dresses always made her think of the gallows”. And
although many of the paths walked by The Bone Season will already
have been well travelled by fantasy readers, Shannon shows real
skill in combining them so easily into an original and enjoyable
escapist fictional world. Like so much recent young adult fiction,
I suspect this series will appeal to the fearless teenager dwelling
within many adults. The ending certainly gripped me to the
marrow
*Daily Telegraph *
A dark, embattled, highly wrought fantasy ... Whatever the future
holds, there is no doubt that Samantha is the real thing, her own
sternest critic and a born storyteller
*Observer*
On the quite wonderful style and craft of words Samantha displays I
really cannot heap enough praise – it is remarkably self-assured
writing, most especially for a debut ... the most engrossing read I
have had so far this year and frankly the most absorbing and
compelling debut I’ve read since the superb Jonathan Strange and Mr
Norrell. Hugely recommended
*Forbidden Planet International Blog*
Shannon’s world is meticulously detailed and has a strong internal
logic ... Plenty of entertaining action ... The pace of The Bone
Season seldom slacks off, and the strong and resourceful Paige is a
memorable heroine. This is one buzz book that just might merit its
hype
*BookPage*
A remarkably accomplished debut
*SFX Magazine*
Impressively realised
*Sunday Times*
The Bone Season is enough to transport even hardened sceptics of
the fantasy genre into its imaginative realm
*Metro*
Frightening and well-imagined ... fascinating ... The large talent
on display here suggests just how good Shannon could get in the
next six books of this promising series
*Washington Post*
Plenty for readers to get absorbed in ... With six novels to go,
and an author clearly driven to go deeper and deeper into a unique
world, many will surely follow her
*Wall Street Journal*
Had me gripped as if in a vice ... Samantha Shannon is a young
writer with a future that looks anything but dystopian
*Stylist*
There’s a great imagination at work here, and Shannon’s just
getting started
*People*
Dynamic and direct ... There is an exciting breadth to Shannon’s
world
*Evening Standard*
With echoes of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Trudi
Canavan’s Black Magician trilogy, this is an excellent debut that
will keep the reader gripped all the way to the end – and leave
them asking when book two will be released
*Irish Examiner*
Don’t just suspend your disbelief – send it to the pictures and
sink into this fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ... Lavish,
ebullient, escapist ... Bring on the sequel
* The Times*
Fascinating … It will be very interesting to see where Shannon goes
with this
*Daily Mail*
Samantha Shannon’s The Bone Season is my perfect cup of tea ... My
inner teenager enjoyed every last word
*Sarah Vine, Daily Mail Books of the Year*
Ask a Question About this Product More... |