The Mime Order

A stunning new edition of the second novel in the bestselling Bone Season series with gorgeous new cover artwork and updated text, by the bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree.'A trailblazer for young talent' Independent. A fugitive who will not be silenced. It is a dark time for clairvoyants. Scion is in league with the Rephaim, an extraordinarily powerful, otherworldly race that intends to make humans its slaves. In an unprecedented feat of bravery, Paige Mahoney has succeeded in leading a mass break-out from the brutal camp, Sheol I, where she and other clairvoyants were systematically imprisoned. Paige is desperate to reach the safety of the London underworld, but the ruthless leader of the Rephaim, Nashira Sargas, is not likely to let her escape so easily…

Hugely imaginative, A trailblazer for young talent … The way Shannon’s characters shift, backstab and fall are as fascinating as the twists and turns of the plot, Goes hell-for-leather, all poltergeists and grisly murders and pitched battles in the catacombs of Camden, Imagine The Hunger Games written by London’s foremost psychogeographer, Iain Sinclair … Some of the best fight scenes I’ve read in donkey’s years … Wherever she goes I will follow, Shannon throws you into this rich, grimy near-future world

Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Bone Season series and the Roots of Chaos series. Her work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. She lives in London. samanthashannon.co.uk / @sayshannon

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