The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones'A wondrous book' JOHN GREEN 'Funny, devastating, achingly romantic' OLIVIE BLAKE 'The freshest contemporary fantasy I've read in years' LAURA STEVEN 'Wildly creative, very funny, and searingly angry' FREYA MARSKE 'This is dark academia as it should be written' BEA FITZGERALD 'Croucher is a master of the craft' KAT DUNN 'Delicious' THE FANTASY HIVE From instant New York Times bestseller, Nero Award shortlisted, TikTok Book of the Year shortlisted, and

but this time the enemy is a lot closer to home

But this monumental book leads them to break all their rules

the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD

These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war

‘A gorgeous ache of a novel’ COLIN WALSH

and only he

including illustrator-extraordinaire Tom Percival as well as brand-new names working in multiple styles

‘Darkly delightful and endlessly imaginative

An uninterrupted urban plane encompassing the entire lower half of England and

' Fern Riddell

There are bloodstains

Can it survive it