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The book that wouldn't burn  Cover Image Book Book

The book that wouldn't burn / Mark Lawrence.

Summary:

The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust, where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change. Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593437919 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 559 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Ace, [2023]
Subject: Books and reading > Fiction.
Corruption > Fiction.
Girls > Fiction.
Imaginary places > Fiction.
Libraries > Fiction.
Memory > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Strangers > Fiction.
Xenophobia > Fiction.
Young men > Fiction.
Genre: Fantasy fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch FIC Lawre 31681010336279 FICTION Available -

Mark Lawrence was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to British parents but moved to the UK at the age of one. After earning a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College London, he went back to the US to work on a variety of research projects, including the “Star Wars” missile-defense program. Since returning to the UK, he has worked mainly on image processing and decision/reasoning theory. He never had any ambition to be a writer, so he was very surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His first trilogy, The Broken Empire, has been universally acclaimed as a groundbreaking work of fantasy, and both Emperor of Thorns and The Liar’s Key have won the David Gemmell Legend Award for best fantasy novel. Mark is married, with four children, and lives in Bristol.


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