'Standalone Fantasy Short on Complexity: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon'.

^ 'See the cover, excerpt, and Q&A for potential big-deal debut 'The Bone Season' by Samantha Shannon - EXCLUSIVE'.

^ Shannon, Samantha (17 September 2020).

^ Kate Kellaway 'Samantha Shannon: 'Writing was a drug I couldn't stop taking'', The Observer, 11 August 2013.

^ a b 'Student author sells film rights'.

Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. 'Seven-book fantasy series for Bloomsbury'. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. ^ a b 'SPOILED: SAMANTHA SHANNON'S THE BONE SEASON'.'Marigold' in Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy, edited by Amerie (2017).She lives in London.īibliography The Bone Season series In 2022, Shannon signed a contract for a third book in the Roots of Chaos cycle and a story inspired by the Greek goddess Iris. Shannon has called the series The Roots of Chaos, having originally planned to only write one book within the universe and later stating that there were more stories to tell. A prequel, A Day of Fallen Night, was published in February 2023. A reimagining of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, it was named by Collider as a sapphic book that should be turned into a show or movie. The Priory of the Orange Tree, a standalone high fantasy by Shannon, was published in February 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Film and TV rights to The Bone Season were first optioned by The Imaginarium Studios in November 2012, with Andy Serkis slated to produce, and by British production company Lunar Park in 2019. Following its publication, Shannon was compared favorably to J.K. Set in 2059, it follows Paige Mahoney, a 'dreamwalker' resisting the Republic of Scion, which has led an oppressive campaign against clairvoyants for two centuries.

In 2012 she signed a six-figure book deal with Bloomsbury Publishing, who bid following the London Book Fair, to publish the first three books in a seven-book series, beginning with The Bone Season. She is of Irish descent on her father's side, her ancestors emigrating to England from County Roscommon. Shannon studied English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford and graduated in 2013. She first began writing at the age of fifteen, when she wrote her first novel, Aurora, which remains unpublished. Shannon was born in Hammersmith, London in November 1991 and grew up in Ruislip. Her debut novel, The Bone Season, was published in 2013 and is the first of a seven-book series. Samantha Shannon (born 8 November 1991) is a British author of dystopian and fantasy fiction. The Bone Season, The Priory of the Orange Tree

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