The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
A gorgeous new fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairy tales with family and love at its dark heart
Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. The last of their lines, they exist on the fringes of society and subsist on a diet of stories and legends.
Children are rare and their numbers have dwindled, so when Devon Fairweather’s second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater – a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans – she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family… or worse.
Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger. But time is running out – for her family want her back, and with every soul her son consumes he loses a little more of himself…
This is a story of escape, a mother’s savage devotion and a queer love that will electrify readers looking for something beguiling, thrilling, strange and new.
About the Author
Sunyi Dean 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. Her short stories have featured in The Best of British Scifi Anthology, Prole, FFO, Tor Dot Com, etc. The Book Eaters is Dean's debut novel.
Format: Paperback | 304 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3 x 1.9 | 332g
Publication Date: 05 Oct 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Harper Voyager
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0008479488
ISBN13: 9780008479480
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including a small patch missing off the bottom of the spine, but no other holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. Apart from the small patch missing on the base of the spine - which looks like it happened when someone tried to remove a price-tag or sticker, the sticker took a top layer of paper off the spine - the book is like new, it looks like the book has never been read.