Skip to content
Shannon, Samantha

Shannon, Samantha

Author Biography & Works

Samantha Shannon-Jones is a British author of queer dystopian and fantasy fiction. Her debut novel, The Bone Season, was published in 2013, and is the first of a seven-book series. Shannon's first novel outside of The Bone Season, The Priory of the Orange Tree, was one of Bloomsbury's bestselling books of 2022 and has sold over a million copies to date.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Shannon

Books by Shannon, Samantha

The Mime Order

The Mime Order

Paige Mahoney has escaped the clandestine prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London, she nurtures a new taste for revolution.Oxford may be behind her, but the Republic of...

The Priory of the Orange Tree

The Priory of the Orange Tree

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive...

A Day of Fallen Night

A Day of Fallen Night

Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation...

The shortlist

New releases and the lists readers are opening most, by email.