{"product_id":"the-glass-republic","title":"The Glass Republic","description":"Product Description\n\n\n'Marks the appearance of a powerful new imagination in SF' Guardian\nIn the gripping sequel to The City's Son, Pen returns to London-Under-Glass when her mirror sister - and biggest secret - is abducted. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.\nPen's life is all about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters that live just beyond notice, the secret of how she got the intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly - and the most closely guarded secret of all: Parva, her mirror-sister, forged from her reflection in a school bathroom mirror and the only person who really understands her.\nWhen Parva is abducted, Pen is forced to make a terrible bargain for the means to track her down, for in London-Under-Glass, looks are currency, and Pen's scars make her a rare and valuable commodity. Kept company by the pretty and fierce steeplejill, Espel, Pen isn't completely alone, but some in the reflected city will do anything to keep her from the secret of what happened to the sister who shared her face. \nThe Glass Republic is the gripping sequel to The City's Son, and the second book of The Skyscraper Throne trilogy.\n\n\nReview\n\n\nA\npowerful new imagination in SF (\nGuardian on The City's Son)\n\n\nHugely inventive in his world-building . . . following in the tradition of authors like\nNeil Gaiman and\nChina Miéville (\nSFX on The City's Son)\n\n\nOne of speculative fiction's most promising new voices - it's such an\nunfettered success that the concluding volume of the Skyscraper Throne saga can't come soon enough (\nTor.com)\n\nA impeccably dark parable,\nendlessly inventive and utterly compelling (\nMike Carey, author of The Girl with all the Gifts on The City’s Son)\n\n\nVivid, inventive - and truly weird (\nDaily Mail on The City’s Son)\n\n\nGorgeously written and brimming with bizarre urban creatures, this\ndarkly imagined and sometimes painful tale should delight fans of\nNeil Gaiman,\nChina Miéville, and\nHolly Black (\nPublishers Weekly, Starred Review on The City’s Son)\n\nPollock's immersive world is easy to get into and once there, you just don't want to leave . . .\nAn excellent novel which reinvigorates urban fantasy as a genre  (\nUpcoming4.me)\n\nManages to push the boundaries of imagination and innovation with every page.\nBeautifully written, wildly imaginative and surprisingly emotional,\nThe Glass Republic continues an exciting new phase in urban fantasy that's being powered by one author alone (\nFantasy Book Review)\n\n\nFive stars isn't enough ... This series has so far been\na stellar example of what good YA, and good urban fantasy, should be (\nOver the Effing Rainbow)\n\n\nThe Glass Republic\n is even better. Building successfully on the promise shown by its predecessor, it's just\ngreat from beginning to end (\nThe Eloquent Page)\n\n\nBook Description\n\n\nIn the gripping sequel to\nThe City's Son, Pen returns to London-Under-Glass when her mirror sister - and biggest secret - is abducted. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman's\nNeverwhere.\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nTom Pollock is a graduate of the Sussex University Creative Writing Programme, and a member of the London-based writers' group The T-Party. He has lived everywhere from Scotland to Sumatra, but the peculiar magic of London has always drawn him back.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39663218425941,"sku":"9781780870137N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/c609df29-fdea-489c-9961-aa78f63b1272.jpg?v=1644307143","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-glass-republic","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}