'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 'A gorgeous, glittering epic' DAILY MAIL ____________________ A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree ____________________ 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 Priory's purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat. Intricate and epic, A Day of Fallen Night sweeps readers back to the world of A Priory of the Orange Tree, showing us a course of events that shaped it for generations to come. Chosen as a book of 2023 by the Metro, Cosmopolitan, Nerd Daily, PinkNews and Waterstones
'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 'A gorgeous, glittering epic' DAILY MAIL ____________________ A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree ____________________ 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 Priory's purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat. Intricate and epic, A Day of Fallen Night sweeps readers back to the world of A Priory of the Orange Tree, showing us a course of events that shaped it for generations to come. Chosen as a book of 2023 by the Metro, Cosmopolitan, Nerd Daily, PinkNews and Waterstones
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Spanning speculative world-building from dystopian near-future visions to sprawling high fantasy, the fantasy novels of the Roots of Chaos cycle and The Bone Season series have reached audiences worldwide. Samantha Shannon is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling British author born in London in 1991 whose work spans expansive epic fantasy and paranormal dystopian fiction.
Born in Hammersmith, London, Samantha Shannon grew up in Ruislip and attended St Anne's College, Oxford, where she studied English Language and Literature from 2010 to 2013. During her time at Oxford, she specialized in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Principles of Film Criticism. In 2013, at twenty-one years old, she published her debut novel, The Bone Season, the internationally bestselling first installment in a seven-book fantasy sequence. She later broadened her bibliography with the standalone epic fantasy novel The Priory of the Orange Tree, which became a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards 2020 and sold over a million English-language copies worldwide. She extended this setting with the prequel A Day of Fallen Night, published in February 2023 as an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller.
Shannon's fiction is characterized by intricate world-building, multi-layered magic systems, and women-centric political structures. Across her dystopian and high-fantasy works, she presents detailed lore, grand political conflicts, and distinct character perspectives. The Roots of Chaos cycle emphasizes themes of female empowerment, authority, and resilience against ancient threats, while her dystopian fiction investigates state control, clairvoyance, and resistance. Influenced by her academic training in literature and film, Shannon constructs immersive settings and sustained narrative tension across both long-form series and massive standalone epics.
2 books in catalog
Spanning speculative world-building from dystopian near-future visions to sprawling high fantasy, the fantasy novels of the Roots of Chaos cycle and The Bone Season series have reached audiences worldwide. Samantha Shannon is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling British author born in London in 1991 whose work spans expansive epic fantasy and paranormal dystopian fiction.
Born in Hammersmith, London, Samantha Shannon grew up in Ruislip and attended St Anne's College, Oxford, where she studied English Language and Literature from 2010 to 2013. During her time at Oxford, she specialized in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Principles of Film Criticism. In 2013, at twenty-one years old, she published her debut novel, The Bone Season, the internationally bestselling first installment in a seven-book fantasy sequence. She later broadened her bibliography with the standalone epic fantasy novel The Priory of the Orange Tree, which became a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards 2020 and sold over a million English-language copies worldwide. She extended this setting with the prequel A Day of Fallen Night, published in February 2023 as an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller.
Shannon's fiction is characterized by intricate world-building, multi-layered magic systems, and women-centric political structures. Across her dystopian and high-fantasy works, she presents detailed lore, grand political conflicts, and distinct character perspectives. The Roots of Chaos cycle emphasizes themes of female empowerment, authority, and resilience against ancient threats, while her dystopian fiction investigates state control, clairvoyance, and resistance. Influenced by her academic training in literature and film, Shannon constructs immersive settings and sustained narrative tension across both long-form series and massive standalone epics.
The Roots of Chaos
The Roots of Chaos
