Bodies of Magic

Freya Marske author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Publishing:17th Sep '26

£22.00

This title is due to be published on 17th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Bodies of Magic cover

Grey’s Anatomy meets A Deadly Education in this dark academia fantasy from bestselling author Freya Marske.

At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer’s gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam—a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future.

The list of exam rules includes:
• You will perform five practical cases.
• Your exam group is chosen at random.
• You pass together, or fail together.

It does not include:
• On the first day, your exam group will find a classmate's dead body in the exam hall.

And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hide... and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class.

Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives, and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world.

Are you ready?

Let’s begin.

Brilliant craft, fresh voice, characters worth obsessing over -- Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue on Swordcrossed
Mystery! Magic! Murder! . . . This book is a confection -- Alix E. Harrow, bestselling author of Starling House
Absolutely delightful -- T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of A Sorceress Comes to Call on Cinder House
Gorgeous, whimsical, romantic, and bittersweet. . . I was bespelled -- Ava Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth on Cinder House
Compelling characters, a spellbinding haunting and a powerful yearning that transcends death -- Lex Croucher, author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love on Cinder House
A compulsively readable fantasy with characters who will steal your heart -- C. S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author of Captive Prince on Swordcrossed
Lush historical fantasy . . . A delightful book, with richly developed characters -- New York Times on A Marvellous Light

ISBN: 9781035039333

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

464 pages