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We are very pleased to welcome author SAMANTHA SHANNON Attending Sunday 3.00pm - Female Characters in Fantasy Fiction Panel - a panel discussion exploring gender and genre with authors Laure Eve, Zoe Marriott and Samantha Shannon. 3.45pm-4.45pm - Signing The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford - a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die. The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.

We are pleased to announce our latest guest for London Film and Comic Con SAMANTHA SHANNON Author - The Bone Season Attending Saturday 5th October 12pm-3pm and taking part in a panel with Sarah J Maas. (More details to follow soon) At the staggeringly young age of 19, Samantha Shannon wrote The Bone Season, the first book in a seven-part series of dizzying imagination. The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, now 21, who has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut. The Bone Season has been sold in 18 languages and Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings) and Jonathan Cavendish (Bridget Jones’s Diary) have optioned film rights through their British production company, The Imaginarium Studios. ‘Truly extraordinary and thrilling’ Andy Serkis The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite creature with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.