For the avid reader, collector and real Scholomance / Naomi Novik - fan,
a new, signed, limited / numbered 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Naomi Novik
The Last Graduate
Lesson Two of the Scholomance
Del Rey / Penguin, London / UK, 2021
Your copy is number 17 or 18 (of 500) of this limited edition. It is flat signed by Naomi Novik in black pen directly to the signature / limitation page.
"Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education.
The
dark school of magic has always done its best to devour its students,
but now that El has reached her final year -- and somehow won herself a
handful of allies along the way -- it's suddenly developed a very
particular craving . . . For her. As the savagery of the
school ramps up, El is determined that she will not give in; not to the
mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. But as the
spectre of graduation looms -- the deadly final ritual that leaves few
students alive -- if she and her allies are to make it out, El will need
to realise that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the
rules.
Wry, witty, endlessly
inventive, and mordantly funny -- yet with a true depth and fierce
justice at its heart -- this enchanting novel reminds us that there are
far more important things than mere survival." (penguin.co.uk)
"An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, Naomi Novik is
also a history buff with a particular fascination with the Napoleonic
era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen. She
lives with her husband and daughter in New York City along with many
purring computers." (penguin.co.uk)