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The Heart-Stopping International Sensation!

Instant No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
No. 1 New York Times Bestseller
The Radio 2 Book Club Pick

From V. E. Schwab, a genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .

This is a story about hunger.

1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily – her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But Maria knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, Maria makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.

This is a story about love.

1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow – but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.

This is a story about rage.

2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.

This is a story about life . . .
how it ends, and how it starts again.

Utterly unmissable, this is a twisting, gothic tale of immortality and hunger. From the bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Praise for Bury Your Bones in the Midnight Soil:

‘Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab . . . This is so much more than a vampire book. It’s a book about how women are judged differently than men and how when society sees you as a monster you become one’
– Jodi Picoult, author Mad Honey, By Any Other Name and many other international bestsellers

‘Lyrical and immersive . . . sweeping history, deep emotions and [a] touch of magic’
– Cosmopolitan Magazine

‘Three young women who lived centuries apart rise again to rebel, seek revenge and fall in love’
– Red Magazine

Readers are obsessed with Bury Your Bones in the Midnight Soil:

‘A brutal masterclass in tragedy. Page-turning. Heartbreaking. Unforgettable’

‘This book gave me CHILLS’

‘It’s easily one of my favourite books of the year!’

‘I actually am at a loss for words to describe how this book made me feel’

‘This book was beautiful. And gut-wrenching. And I was obsessed’

V. E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16/06/2025

Publisher Review

Schwab is so good at creating a fantastical world, but letting her characters, and their complexities, take centre stage — Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister’s Keeper Sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war . . . you will find yourself in quick turns both aching with heartbreak, and gleefully crowing at the truly delicious, wicked cleverness in store — Naomi Novik on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Addie LaRue is a book perfectly suspended between darkness and light, myth and reality. [This novel] is – ironically – unforgettable — Alix E. Harrow on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue The kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime . . . a defiant, joyous rebellion against time, fate and even death itself – and a powerful reminder that the only magic great enough to conquer all of it is love — Peng Shepherd on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Schwab’s page turner is an achingly poignant romantic fantasy about the desperate desire to make one’s mark on the world — Oprah.com, ‘Best LGBTQ Books of 2020’ on The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue