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Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions.
Walden is good at her job-no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It's her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it's possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from-is herself. EMILY TESH, winner of the Astounding Award and a Crawford Award finalist, is the author of the instant national and international bestselling Some Desperate Glory and the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow Duology, which begins with the novella Silver in the Wood and concludes with Drowned Country.
"A searingly brilliant fantasy. This is magical school with teeth. Warm-hearted, terrifying and clever, Tesh's examination of magical school through the eyes of an unforgettable - and properly grown up - heroine is an unmissable read."-Tasha Suri, award-winning author of The Jasmine Throne
"The Incandescent is the grown-up answer to the magical boarding school tale, a glorious shout of vindication for anyone who has ever worked in education. Every book Emily Tesh writes is a magic trick, and this is no exception. Fantastic in every sense of the word."-Freya Marske, bestselling author of The Last Binding trilogy
"An absolute flex of a book, empathetic and passionate and deeply thoughtful. Above all, Tesh will make you care: about place, self, and the brave, impulsive, vulnerable, curious, incandescent young lives that are our future. A gorgeous evocation of what it means to have a calling."-Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun
"If magical boarding schools existed, they would look very much like this one: volatile cocktails of hormones, demons, and generational wealth, kept afloat solely by the labor and expertise of several very tired grown-ups. If you, like me, are a very tired grown-up, The Incandescent will hit you right in the heart."-Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House
"The Incandescent has immediately become my favorite magic school story: a book filled with teenagers that's for and about grown-ups, in the most compelling and convincing sense possible. The joys of seeing Tesh's protagonist succeed at her job of preventing children from making terrible mistakes are only exceeded by the joys of watching her make even worse mistakes, and I loved every page of it."-Rebecca Fraimow, author of Lady Eve's Last Con
"A must-read; a magical, sophisticated and razor-sharp story of education and power."-Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's Orbit
Praise for Emily Tesh
"A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. Deep and green and wonderful."-Naomi Novik on Silver in the Wood
"Surprised me at every turn. . . . This book has earned a permanent place on my favorites shelf."-V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, on Some Desperate Glory
"A fantastic, engrossing space opera filled with found family and an incredible character arc as Kyr grows and learns the truth of the universe."–Library Journal, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2023, on Some Desperate Glory
"This riveting adventure deserves a space on shelves alongside genre titans like Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."-Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Some Desperate Glory
"This book will hurt you and you will say thank you. . . . Reading this feels like bearing witness to something revolutionary."-Olivie Blake, New Yo
"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions.
Walden is good at her job-no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It's her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it's possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from-is herself. EMILY TESH, winner of the Astounding Award and a Crawford Award finalist, is the author of the instant national and international bestselling Some Desperate Glory and the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow Duology, which begins with the novella Silver in the Wood and concludes with Drowned Country.
"A searingly brilliant fantasy. This is magical school with teeth. Warm-hearted, terrifying and clever, Tesh's examination of magical school through the eyes of an unforgettable - and properly grown up - heroine is an unmissable read."-Tasha Suri, award-winning author of The Jasmine Throne
"The Incandescent is the grown-up answer to the magical boarding school tale, a glorious shout of vindication for anyone who has ever worked in education. Every book Emily Tesh writes is a magic trick, and this is no exception. Fantastic in every sense of the word."-Freya Marske, bestselling author of The Last Binding trilogy
"An absolute flex of a book, empathetic and passionate and deeply thoughtful. Above all, Tesh will make you care: about place, self, and the brave, impulsive, vulnerable, curious, incandescent young lives that are our future. A gorgeous evocation of what it means to have a calling."-Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun
"If magical boarding schools existed, they would look very much like this one: volatile cocktails of hormones, demons, and generational wealth, kept afloat solely by the labor and expertise of several very tired grown-ups. If you, like me, are a very tired grown-up, The Incandescent will hit you right in the heart."-Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House
"The Incandescent has immediately become my favorite magic school story: a book filled with teenagers that's for and about grown-ups, in the most compelling and convincing sense possible. The joys of seeing Tesh's protagonist succeed at her job of preventing children from making terrible mistakes are only exceeded by the joys of watching her make even worse mistakes, and I loved every page of it."-Rebecca Fraimow, author of Lady Eve's Last Con
"A must-read; a magical, sophisticated and razor-sharp story of education and power."-Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's Orbit
Praise for Emily Tesh
"A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. Deep and green and wonderful."-Naomi Novik on Silver in the Wood
"Surprised me at every turn. . . . This book has earned a permanent place on my favorites shelf."-V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, on Some Desperate Glory
"A fantastic, engrossing space opera filled with found family and an incredible character arc as Kyr grows and learns the truth of the universe."–Library Journal, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2023, on Some Desperate Glory
"This riveting adventure deserves a space on shelves alongside genre titans like Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."-Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Some Desperate Glory
"This book will hurt you and you will say thank you. . . . Reading this feels like bearing witness to something revolutionary."-Olivie Blake, New Yo
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In this queer dark academia fantasy, narrator Zara Ramm is so committed that it's hard to know where she ends and Chetwood Academy's Director of Magic, Dr. Walden, begins. Walden is a magician in her late 30s, a powerful demon wrangler, and an excellent teacher. She's equally responsible for managing teenage angst in the classroom and keeping the demons that infiltrate campus in check. Walden quic
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