Author

Samantha Shannon

Samantha Shannon was born in West London in 1991. She started writing in abundance when she was twelve, started her first novel when she was fifteen, and studied English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, from 2010–2013. She specialised in Emily Dickinson and Principles of Film Criticism. In 2013, she published The Bone Season, the internationally bestselling first instalment in a seven-book series of fantasy novels. Its first sequel, The Mime Order, was published in 2015, and she's currently working on edits for the third book in the series, The Song Rising. She is also working on a high fantasy novel.