as Shannon's exceptional fantasy saga continues.” - Booklist, starred review A Clockwork Orange meets A Tale of Two Cities meets Harry Potter in this clever, caring, and spellbinding tale, which promises more to come. And the story reverberates with echoes of the slave trade, industrial servitude, and classic gangster drama, all intensified by keenly imagined otherworldly combat. The motley, elaborately costumed characters are compelling the nonstop, often eerie action is riveting. “Shannon creates vividly dilapidated, macabre, and mysterious worlds both urban and within the dreamscapes Paige valiantly enters. If anyone was wondering how Shannon would stretch this story into seven books, the gut punch of the last line in The Mime Order will instead have them on tenterhooks for the next five.” - USA Today Tussling with poltergeists, showing her heroic mettle and even playing homicide detective, Paige makes great strides as a memorable character, and so does her author. With the Unnatural Assembly and its colorful gangsters, Shannon goes full Scorsese. betrayal and political intrigue take over in the excellent Mime Order. “While Bone Season was filled with action and exposition. Her fans will be calling for more.” - NPR.org Like Paige Mahoney, Shannon now has proven staying power.

Shannon's haunting dystopian universe is rich in detail, consistent, suffused with familiar afternotes. Film rights to The Bone Season were also optioned by Andy Serkis's film company, The Imaginarium Studios, in November 2012.“An intoxicating urban-fantasy series. She signed a six-figure book deal with Bloomsbury Publishing to publish the first three books in a seven-book series, beginning with The Bone Season. In 2012, Bloomsbury Publishing acquired The Bone Season during the London Book Fair in a preemptive bid by the publisher.

Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages.

Shannon attended Bishop Ramsey School and recently finished studying English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford in June 2013. She started writing at the age of fifteen, when she wrote her first novel, Aurora, which remains unpublished. Samantha Shannon was born in Hammersmith, West London on November 8, 1991.

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