Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V E Schwab author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Publishing:13th Aug '26

£10.99

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An instant No. 1 Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a twisting tale of power, immortality and the terrifying price of freedom from V. E. Schwab.

Three women share one desire: to break the rules men use to bind them.

1532. Santo Domingo: María is wild and wily, and knows beauty is her only currency. So when an alluring stranger offers a dark alternate path, Maria makes a desperate choice.

1827. London: Charlotte lives a cloistered life, her heart full of impossible wants. Swept away by a beautiful widow's invitation, Charlotte discovers she could buy her freedom – if she sells her soul.

2019. Boston: Alice moved across the world to escape her past. But a one-night stand gives her a thirst for answers, and retribution.

Defying time and all odds, these three women’s stories become tangled like roots. This is a story about life. How it ends, and how it starts again.

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'A rich, lush labyrinth of a book . . . It had me by the throat from the first page'
– Emma Stonex

‘Spanning centuries, this entrancing queer love story follows three women . . . Lyrical and immersive’
– Cosmopolitan Magazine

'Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab'
– Jodi Picoult

'I absolutely devoured it . . . It's utterly absorbing, atmospheric and perfectly gothic'
– Bridget Collins

'A dark, irresistible saga that asks what it means to be human – to live, to love and above all, to hunger'
– Peng Shepherd





V. E. Schwab's Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16/06/2025

Schwab at her finest. She’s gifted us a dark, irresistible saga that asks what it means to be human – to live, to love and above all, to hunger -- Peng Shepherd, bestselling author of The Cartographers
Perfectly suspended between darkness and light . . . unforgettable -- Alix E. Harrow on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure . . . you will find yourself in quick turns both aching with heartbreak, and gleefully crowing at the truly delicious, wicked cleverness in store -- Naomi Novik on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab . . . an unmissable addition to your To Be Read pile -- Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister’s Keeper, on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Compulsively readable . . . surprises in a few new ways, each of them a delight - Locus on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Lush, gorgeous prose and a gripping take on the vampire that pays homage to the greats while doing something deliciously new - Lex Croucher on Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime . . . a defiant, joyous rebellion against time, fate and even death itself – and a powerful reminder that the only magic great enough to conquer all of it is love -- Peng Shepherd on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Schwab’s page turner is an achingly poignant romantic fantasy about the desperate desire to make one’s mark on the world -- Oprah.com, ‘Best LGBTQ Books of 2020’, on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

ISBN: 9781035064663

Dimensions: unknown

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656 pages