Description
The year is 1666. The King and Parliament vie for power, fighting one another with politics and armies alike. Below, the faerie court has enemies of its own. The old ways are breaking down, and no one knows what will rise in their place.But now, a greater threat has come, one that could destroy everything. In the house of a sleeping baker, a spark leaps free of the oven-and ignites a blaze that will burn London to the ground. While the humans struggle to halt the conflagration that is devouring the city street by street, the fae pit themselves against a less tangible foe: the spirit of the fire itself, powerful enough to annihilate everything in its path.Mortal and fae will have to lay aside the differences that divide them, and fight together for the survival of London itself...
Interviews and features in fantasy and entertainment magazines. Reviews in national newspapers. Promotion on titanbooks.com. The second Onyx Court novel, a critically acclaimed fantasy series from the author of a Natural History of Dragons. A breathing fantasy novel of intrigue and betrayal set during the English Civil War and the Great Fire of London; In Ashes Lie seamlessly weaves together history and the fantastic to dazzling effect. "Compelling and well plotted... Marie Brennan's research into the Glorious Revolution and British faerie lore is as extensive as before and lets her paint a seventeenth-century London with vivid colours." SF Crowsnest. Author has a strong internet presence, with her own website, newsletter, Livejournal blog, Twitter account and Book View Cafe blog.
About the Author
Marie Brennan is a former academic with a background in archaeology, anthropology, and folklore, which she now puts to rather cockeyed use in writing fantasy. She is the critically acclaimed author of the' Lady Trent series, as well as the Doppelganger and Onyx Court novels, six novellas and more than thirty short stories. She won two Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Grand Prizes.
Book Information
ISBN 9781785650758
Author Marie Brennan
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Titan Books Ltd
Publisher Titan Books Ltd
Series Onyx Court
Interviews and features in fantasy and entertainment magazines. Reviews in national newspapers. Promotion on titanbooks.com. The second Onyx Court novel, a critically acclaimed fantasy series from the author of a Natural History of Dragons. A breathing fantasy novel of intrigue and betrayal set during the English Civil War and the Great Fire of London; In Ashes Lie seamlessly weaves together history and the fantastic to dazzling effect. "Compelling and well plotted... Marie Brennan's research into the Glorious Revolution and British faerie lore is as extensive as before and lets her paint a seventeenth-century London with vivid colours." SF Crowsnest. Author has a strong internet presence, with her own website, newsletter, Livejournal blog, Twitter account and Book View Cafe blog.
About the Author
Marie Brennan is a former academic with a background in archaeology, anthropology, and folklore, which she now puts to rather cockeyed use in writing fantasy. She is the critically acclaimed author of the' Lady Trent series, as well as the Doppelganger and Onyx Court novels, six novellas and more than thirty short stories. She won two Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Grand Prizes.
Book Information
ISBN 9781785650758
Author Marie Brennan
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Titan Books Ltd
Publisher Titan Books Ltd
Series Onyx Court
