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The Heart-Stopping International Sensation!

Instant No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
No. 1 New York Times Bestseller
The Radio 2 Book Club Pick

From V. E. Schwab, a genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .

This is a story about hunger.

1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.…

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1 author picked Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Wow. I'm not sure how to describe this book. Schwab has described it as the most personal book she's ever written, and that is evident as you turn the pages. As with all her writing, it's lyrical and beautiful and functions as character in and of itself. Schwab doesn't write the same kind of story twice and Bones is different again to any other books of hers, yet this one is probably most similar to Addie LaRue (and Schwab has hinted that it exists in the same world as Addie). This story is not full of action and adventure and…

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