The Book Eaters

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SKU: 9781250810205
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By Sunyi Dean

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Set on the Yorkshire Moors, The Book Eaters follows Devon, a member of a secret lineage who literally consume books, retaining their stories and knowledge. While her family feasts on tales and adventures, Devon’s son harbours a rare hunger, craving human minds rather than pages, challenging the boundaries of their mysterious world.
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Ideal for readers of speculative fiction and fantasy who appreciate imaginative world-building and dark, thought-provoking narratives.

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I devoured this. -- V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue

An International Bestseller

An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022

A Book Riot Best Book of 2022

A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022
A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee

A Library Journal Best Book of 2022

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781250810205

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 304

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Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Sci-Fi & Fantasy Sunyi Dean

About the Author

Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters, is an autistic author of fantasy fiction. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire with her children. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales.

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