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Januaries

Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

Olivie Blake author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:17th Oct '24

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A fairytale twist on the timelessness of love, heartbreak, and death, this is a collection of iconic short stories by bestselling author Olivie Blake. For fans of Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher and Olivie Blake's Alone With You in the Ether.

A fairytale twist on the timelessness of love, heartbreak and death, this is a collection of iconic short stories by bestselling author Olivie Blake. For fans of Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher and Olivie Blake's Alone With You in the Ether.Dazzling stories of love, magic and betrayal . . .

A sensational collection from internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.

*This hardcover edition includes beautiful interior illustrations and special illustrated endpapers from artist Polarts*


Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, the spirit tethered to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout – and craves her freedom. Elsewhere, Congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth. We also follow a banished fairy, as she answers a Craigslist ad. And we meet a Victorian orphan, who gains literacy for her occult situationship. In another time and place, a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away.

Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on life, death and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both. This collection also features modified fairy tales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry and at least one set of actual wedding vows.

Januaries is collection of new and existing short stories from the internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.

‘Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent’ – Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights

‘Sign me up for anything she writes’ – Cosmopolitan

Also by Olivie Blake:
The Atlas Six
The Atlas Paradox
The Atlas Complex
Alone with You in the Ether
One For My Enemy
Masters of Death

Olivie Blake is a multiple Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller - reaching No. 1 for The Atlas Complex in January 2024.

Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent -- Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights
Sign me up for anything she writes -- Cosmopolitan
Coolly horrific, brilliantly brainy and utterly compelling -- Daily Mail on The Atlas Six
This book is half mystery, half puzzle, and wholly a delight -- Holly Black, author of Book of Night on The Atlas Six

ISBN: 9781035039579

Dimensions: 242mm x 163mm x 36mm

Weight: 616g

400 pages