The Mime Order

Samantha Shannon

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Published: Jan 26, 2015

Description:

In the internationally bestselling The Bone Season, Paige Mahoney escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but now her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London.

As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner.

Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided. Will Paige know who to trust? The hunt for the dreamwalker is on.

Review

"An impressive new voice in fantasy literature . . . One gets the feeling that anything is possible [for Shannon] if the spirit moves her." —USA Today

"A great imagination at work." —People

"Terrific—intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing . . . Shannon has me hooked." —NPR.org

"An author clearly driven to go deeper and deeper into a unique world [—] many will surely follow her." —Wall Street Journal

"This book is definitely your new crack." —io9

About the Author

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 2013 she published The Bone Season, the first in a seven book series. The Bone Season was a New York Times, a Sunday Times and an Asian Age bestseller, was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and Huffington Post and was named one of Amazon's 2013 Best Books of the Year. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages and the film rights have been acquired by The Imaginarium Studios and 20th Century Fox. In 2014, Samantha Shannon was included on the Evening Standard's Power 1000 list. The Mime Order is her second novel. @say_shannon facebook.com/theboneseason www.sshannonauthor.tumblr.com www.samanthashannon.co.uk