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Biographical note
M. R. Carey has been making up stories for most of his life. His novel The Girl With All the Gifts has sold over a million copies and became a major motion picture, based on his own BAFTA Award-nominated screenplay. Under the name Mike Carey he has written for both DC and Marvel, including critically acclaimed runs on Lucifer, Hellblazer and X-Men. His creator-owned books regularly appear in the New York Times bestseller list. He also has several previous novels including the Felix Castor series (written as Mike Carey), two radio plays and a number of TV and movie screenplays to his credit.<b>This series just gets better and better.</b> <b>Clever, compassionate and genuinely immersive</b>: I can't wait for the next one . . .
- Joanne Harris on THE TRIALS OF KOLI,
A broken world that is <b>both marvellously expansive and claustrophobically menacing</b>
- PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY on THE TRIALS OF KOLI,
This is <b>a bold, unique world - be prepared to be engrossed </b>
- SCIFINOW on THE TRIALS OF KOLI,
If you loved M.R. Carey's <i>The Book of Koli</i>, you will love <i>The Trials of Koli</i> just as much, if not more . . . <b>Absorbing, stunning, and emotionally rich</b>
- LOCUS on THE TRIALS OF KOLI,
<b>Gripping, engaging, and absolutely worth the time it takes to burrow yourself into its reality. I can't recommend it highly enough</b>
- Seanan McGuire on THE BOOK OF KOLI,
<b>Koli embarks on a journey as perilous as it is enlightening . . . Enthralling</b>
- GUARDIAN on THE BOOK OF KOLI,
Narrator Koli's inquisitive mind and kind heart make him the perfect guide to Carey's immersive, impeccably rendered world . . . <b>A captivating start to what promises to be an epic post-apocalyptic fable</b>
KIRKUS
<b>Carey writes with compassion and fire - strange and surprising and humane</b>
- Lauren Beukes,
<b>An ingenious, dizzily provocative novel</b> . . . Carey invents a fantastic far-future world, finding humanity in unlikely places, <i>Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author</i>
- Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author on THE BOOK OF KOLI,
This novel should please Carey's existing fans as well as fans of the post-apocalyptic subgenre in general
BOOKLIST on THE TRIALS OF KOLI
Narrator Koli's inquisitive mind and kind heart make him the perfect guide to Carey's immersive, impeccably rendered world . . . Readers will be thrilled to know the next two books will be published in short order. <b>A captivating start to what promises to be an epic post-apocalyptic fable</b>
- KIRKUS on THE BOOK OF KOLI,
'ENTHRALLING . . . A JOURNEY AS PERILOUS AS IT IS ENLIGHTENING' Guardian on The Book of Koli
The journey through M. R. Carey's 'immersive, impeccably rendered world' (Kirkus) continues in The Trials of Koli - the second book of the Rampart trilogy.
Koli has been cast from his village and into the strange and deadly forest beyond. But he heard a story, once. A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the old times that was there. And if Koli can find it, there may be a way for him to redeem himself - by saving what's left of humanity.
Praise for The Trials of Koli:
'This series just gets better and better. Clever, compassionate and genuinely immersive' Joanne Harris
'A broken world that is both marvellously expansive and claustrophobically menacing' Publisher's Weekly
'If you loved M.R. Carey's The Book of Koli, you will love The Trials of Koli just as much, if not more . . . Absorbing, stunning, and emotionally rich' Locus
'This is a bold, unique world - be prepared to be engrossed' SciFiNow
Look out for the final novel in the Rampart trilogy: The Fall of Koli