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EPISODE · Mar 15, 2025 · 58 MIN

Samantha Shannon — The Dark Mirror (Bone Season #5) - with Sabaa Tahir

from Politics and Prose Presents · host Politics and Prose

Everything is about to change.Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade-but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory.Her journey back to the revolution soon takes her to Venice, where the Domino Programme has uncovered evidence of a secret Scion plan. Before Paige can return to London, she must help the network unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist, which threatens to bring Europe to its knees in weeks.And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories-Arcturus Mesarthim-might also hold the key to thwarting Scion, allowing the revolution to strike an unprecedented blow . . .With its intricate worldbuilding, slow burn romance, and "complex, ever evolving, scrappy yet touching" ( NPR) heroine, the Bone Season series shows Samantha Shannon at the height of her considerable powers.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781639733965?ic_referral=e3jUxuq29ta6vO12DDpO1VxWpL8yr8yE8WEfn0-jVYAwM_1n9Eq-FB0BEDAP4lt3BD176B2_ZbcO1-PJwd1eYsEGdlv-Pbo8ooAhcF9xW1xRKsiY4LeqTSfp-F2XRcXJN2U6UgSamantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Bone Season and Roots of Chaos series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives in London. samanthashannon.co.uk / @say_shannonShannon is in conversation with Sabaa Tahir, a former newspaper editor who grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, listening to thunderous indie rock, and playing guitar and piano badly. Her #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series has been translated into more than thirty-five languages, and the first book in the series was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Tahir’s most recent novel, All My Rage, won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry, and was an instant New York Times bestseller.*recorded 2/27/2025

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