An enormously wealthy and glamorous family competing to become heir to generations worth of their family’s accumulated magic and wealth: the plot is irresistible. Picture a gun-slinging, hard-drinking wild west, transpose it on to a sweeping, romantic desert, then add a rebel prince bent on overthrowing a wicked sultan, and a little magic in the manner ofA Thousand and One Nights. Genres: Book cover for Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton Rebel of the Sands Book cover for Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton Traitor to the. “She shot straight to the top with her Rebel of the Sands trilogy and The Notorious Virtues is equally showstopping. Alwyn Hamiltons debut novel is a high-concept, and highly enjoyable, epic fantasy adventure for young adults. “Alwyn is a first-class storyteller with an unparalleled imagination and an incredible talent for world building,” said Swan.

She now writes full-time and REBEL OF THE SANDS was her. In The Notorious Virtues, the first book in the series, the younger generation of the Holtzfall family must compete in trials to determine who is the most virtuous and therefore most worthy of inheriting control of the family and their money.Īlice Swan, editorial director for Faber Children’s, acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights from Molly Ker Hawn of Bent Agency and will publish in May 2020. She then moved to London where she now lives and put her degree to use working for an auction house. Set in the same world as Hamilton’s Rebel of the Sands trilogy, though on a different continent and generations apart, the trilogy is based in a 1920s society reliant on magic to keep itself safe from the dangers of the forest. YA author Alwyn Hamilton has sold a new series to Faber Children’s in the UK and Viking at Penguin Random House in the US.

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