Discover this spellbinding debut from S.A. Chakraborty.

‘An luxurious feast of a book – spicy and bloody, dizzyingly magical, and still, somehow, utterly believable’ Laini Taylor, Weekend Times and NY Times bestselling author

Among the bustling markets of eighteenth century Cairo, the city’s outcasts eke out a living swindling rich Ottoman nobles and foreign invaders alike.

But alongside this ” new world ” the old tales linger. Tales of djinn and spirits. Of metropolitan areas concealed among the swirling sands of the desert, full of enchantment, desire and riches. Where magic pours down every street, dangling in the atmosphere like dust.

Many wish their lives could possibly be filled up with such wonder, however, not Nahri. She understands the deals she uses to manage are just tips and sleights of hand: there’s nothing magical about them. She only wishes to 1 day leave Cairo, but as the saying goes…

Be careful everything you wish for.