October 2022 Media Bites Catalogue

Cloud Cuckoo Land

ANTHONY DOE RR When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love. Idaho, 2020: An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? Unknown, sometime in the Future: With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See , Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.

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The Book Eaters Released: 05/10/22 BPB | 592pp AU $22.99 NZ $25.00 Imprint: 4th Estate

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A gorgeous fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairy tales with family and love at its dark heart … Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman ( Stardust, Coraline ), Susanna Clarke ( Piranesi ) and Let the Right One In Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends. Children are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater – a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans – she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family … or worse. Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. But time is running out – for her family want her back, and with every soul her son consumes he loses a little more of himself … This is a story of escape, a savage mother’s devotion and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange and new.

sunyidean.com

Released: 05/10/22 TPB | 304pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: Voyager

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