THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'An ingenious fantasy about empire' GUARDIAN 'Fans of THE SECRET HISTORY, this one is an automatic buy' GLAMOUR 'Ambitious, sweeping and epic' EVENING...

The searing follow-up to 2018's most celebrated fantasy debut - THE POPPY WAR. von Kuang, R. F.

Peasant. Student. Soldier. Goddess. When war orphan Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the academies—she surprised everyone: test officials, the guardians who wanted to marry her off and...