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  • Published: 17 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529100907
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Last Graduate

The Sunday Times bestselling dark academia fantasy and sequel to A Deadly Education




The exciting follow up to the Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education. Once you enter the Scholomance there are only two way out: you graduate or you die.

Sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling and Lodestar award-nominated A Deadly Education

'The dark school of magic I have been waiting for' Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale

'Fantasy that delights on every level' Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval
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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.
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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.

A Deadly Education, Sunday Times bestseller - October 2020

  • Published: 17 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529100907
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Naomi Novik

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.

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Praise for The Last Graduate

The pulsating sequel to A Deadly Education finds El in even more danger from the dark school of magic as graduation looms and few will make it out alive.

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