Shortlisted for the 2016 English Fantasy Society Prize for Best Novel

Guns of the Dawn is a pacey, gripping illusion of war and magic, from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning writer, Adrian Tchaikovsky.

The first casualty of war is truth .

First, Denland’s revolutionaries assassinated their ruler, launching a influx of bloodshed

after decades of peace. Next they clashed with Lascanne, their royalist neighbour,

pitching war-machines against warlocks in a fiercely fought conflict.

Genteel Emily Marshwic viewed as the hostilities stole her family’s teenagers. But

then came the decision for yet more Lascanne soldiers within a ravaged kingdom with none

left to provide. Emily must join the ranks of conscripted females and march toward the front lines.

With barely more than enough training to carry a musket, Emily braves the savage truth of warfare.

But she begins to question her country’s trigger, and those doubts become critical. On her behalf

options will determine her own future which of two nations locked in fight.