The Bone Season - the most exciting book release of 2013

Samantha Shannon is a new 21 year young author on her way to set the literature world alight with her debut novel 'The Bone Season'. 

Samantha Shannon

The Bone Season is the first book in a dazzling new fantasy series to be published on the 20th of August 2013 by Bloomsbury. It will be available in hardback and as ebook, priced at £16.99.

The author has just completed her finals at Oxford University, and is working on the second instalment of the seven book series. 

The yet-to-released book is already being developed for film by Andy Circus and his ‘Imaginarium Studios’. 

Samantha Shannon according to Vogue 'has created a world of impressive scope', let us introduce you to it:

Welcome to Scion, no safer place.

The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.

It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, kidnapped and drugged, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite creature with dark honey skin and heavy-lidded yellow eyes. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.

With rave reviews from Glamour, The Telegraph and The Observer Samantha Shannon and a legion of reviewers she has already converted into fans - she seems to be the one to watch. 

Find out more about The Bone Season:

www.theboneseason.com / www.facebook.com/theboneseason