'One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human' BARBARA KINGSOLVER
For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.
'By far my favourite book of of the year' Guardian
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.
'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times-bestselling author of ARIADNE
'Shannon is simply a master of the genre' C. S. PACAT, New York Times-bestselling author of DARK RISE
'A tremendous triumph' LONDON SHAH, award-winning author of the LIGHT OF THE ABYSS series
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A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree
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Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the…
Many of the animals we encounter, from those in our fields to the ones in our fantasies, have remained the same since medieval times — but the words we use, and the ways we think about them, have often changed beyond recognition…
Old English was spoken over a thousand years ago, when every animal was a 'deor'. In this glittering collection of words and animals we find 'deor' big and small. From walker-weavers (spiders) and grey-cloaked ones (eagles) to moon-heads and teeth tyrants (historians still don’t know!), we discover a world both familiar and strange: where ants could be monsters and panthers could be your friend, where dog-headed men were as real as elephants and whales were as sneaky as wolves.
These are the magical roots of English today, and the stories they tell reveal as much about the world as they do about the strangest animals of all — us.
