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Emily Tesh

    Emily Tesh crafts narratives that delve into the intricacies of identity, community, and the search for meaning in a complex world. Her writing is characterized by a profound insight into the human psyche and a meticulously honed prose style. Tesh explores how characters forge connections and navigate the landscapes of loss and transformation. Her work invites readers to reflect on their own journeys and relationships.

    Some Desperate Glory
    The Incandescent
    Silver in the wood
    Drowned Country
    • The Incandescent

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      A searingly brilliant fantasy, this magical school narrative is not to be missed. Dr. Walden, the Director of Magic at Chetwood School, is one of England's most powerful magicians. Her days are filled with meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented yet chaotic sixth formers, and securing the school's boundaries against demonic incursions. While Walden excels at her job, demons are cunning manipulators, and the greatest threat to her school may be herself. This captivating contemporary fantasy from a Sunday Times bestselling author blends elements reminiscent of A Deadly Education and Rivers of London. Readers have praised the book as a delightful and perfect read, with one noting it as the grown-up answer to the magical boarding school tale. The narrative is described as empathetic, passionate, and deeply thoughtful. Five-star reviews highlight the book's captivating nature, with readers expressing their desire for multiple copies and their inability to put it down. Many fans of classic magic school series like A Deadly Education and The Magicians will find themselves enchanted by this novel. It has exceeded expectations, solidifying the author’s place among readers' favorites and marking it as a standout read of the year.

      The Incandescent2025
      4.1
    • Some Desperate Glory

      • 438 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

      Some Desperate Glory2023
      4.0
    • Drowned Country

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      "Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can't ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver does not relish what he'll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea - a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him."--Publisher

      Drowned Country2020
      4.7
    • Silver in the wood

      • 109 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past, both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart

      Silver in the wood2019
      4.7