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The Salt King
Available from September 1st
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The Salt King is a gorgeous and creepy fusion of folk horror with biblical lore from the genre-disrupting author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Mars House.
Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there are followed by a bizarre video showing that someone trying to leave the enclave has been turned to salt, the Vatican foreign ministry summons him.
We were transfixed by The Salt King. This is addictive storytelling at its finest with the kind of worldbuilding found in books like Jonathan Strange or Hyperion, which—if you know us—is high praise.
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