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  • Published: 23 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781645660705
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00

The Stone Road




With the lyrical cadence of The Last Unicorn and intense imagery of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Stone Road is a timeless story of hope, belonging, and growing into your power.

With the lyrical cadence of The Last Unicorn and intense imagery of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Stone Road is a timeless story of hope, belonging, and growing into your power.

Award-winning Australian author Trent Jamieson presents a haunting rural fantasy where the dead speak beneath your feet and twisted monsters hunger for their lost humanity.

On the day Jean was born, the dead howled. A thin scratch of black smoke began to rise behind the hills west of town: Furnace had been lit, and soon its siren call began to draw the people of Casement Rise to it, never to return. 

Casement Rise is a dusty town at the end of days, a harsh world of grit and arcane dangers. While Jean’s stern, overprotective Nan has always kept Casement Rise safe from monsters, she may have waited too long to teach Jean how to face them on her own. On Jean’s twelfth birthday, a mysterious graceful man appears, an ethereal and terrifying being tied to her family’s secrets.

Now, Nan must rush Jean’s education in monsters, magic, and the breaking of the world in ages past. If Jean is to combat the graceful man and finally understand the ancient evil that powers Furnace, she will have to embrace her legacy, endure her Nan’s lessons, and learn all she can—before Furnace burns down her world and everyone in it.

  • Published: 23 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781645660705
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00

About the author

Trent Jamieson

Trent Jamieson is a multi-award-winning novelist, short-story writer and author of children’s picture book The Giant and the Sea, illustrated by Rovina Cai, which won the 2021 Environment Award for Children's Literature Picture Fiction, as well as many adult books. His children’s book Mr Impoppable was also illustrated by Brent Wilson.

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Praise for The Stone Road

“A coming-of-age story with a dreamlike quality. . . . Those who appreciate fantasy that leans toward fable will gladly follow along on Jean’s journey.” —Booklist

"The Stone Road is lovely, hypnotic. I want to drink this book." —H.A. Clarke, author of The Scapegracers

The Stone Road is a cycle of mysteries, an invocation of kindness amidst decay, a promise to the living, and blessing for the dead.” —Kathleen Jennings, author of Flyaway

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