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Blaise Faint @handle.invalid · 30/04/2026

#Booksky Arrived today: Some Desperate Glory, Silver in the Wood, and The Incandescent by Emily Tesh 1/2

front covers of Some Desperate Glory, The Incandescent, Silver in the Wood, and Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

EMILY TESH
THE INCANDESCENT

Hugo Award–winning author of Some Desperate Glory

Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series meets Fourth Wing in this sapphic dark academia fantasy from Hugo Award–winning author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

About the Author

EMILY TESH is the author of Some Desperate Glory and Silver in the Wood, which won the World Fantasy Award, and its sequel Drowned Country. She lives in London.

(Author photo credit: Nicola Sanders Photography)

Praise

“Emily Tesh conjures up a furious, fascinating world, and her characters burn with ambition and rage. A truly thrilling fantasy.”
—OLIVIE BLAKE

“The Incandescent is a deeply compelling story about power, sacrifice, and the cost of survival… utterly absorbing.”
—SHELLEY PARKER-CHAN

“Tesh writes with precision and heart… a gripping, unforgettable novel.”
—ALIX E. HARROW

“An intense, brilliant book that will stay with you long after the final page.”
—REBECCA ROANHORSE

Don’t Miss

Some Desperate Glory
Silver in the Wood
Drowned Country

Publisher

TOR
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
www.tor.com

Printed in the USA

“Emily Tesh’s writing is always a delight: dreamy-soft, prickly-sweet, full of beauty, horror, and the unknown. . . . A wonderful examination of family, love, and change set in an evocative landscape steeped in old magic and fairy tales.” —JENN LYONS

Even the wild man of Greenhollow can’t ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver does not relish what he’ll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea—a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him.

In this stunning sequel to Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh once again invites readers to lose themselves in the story of Henry and Tobias, and the magic of a myth they’ve always known.

PRAISE FOR SILVER IN THE WOOD

“Alive with old magic, Silver in the Wood made my hair stand on end even as it beckoned me to go deeper, and in the end I couldn’t resist.” —C. L. POLK

“Exquisitely crafted . . . A welcome new voice in fantasy.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Cover art and design by David Curtis

A Tor.com Book
Tom Doherty Associates
www.tor.com

ISBN 978-1-250-75660-2

“A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. Just magnificent.”
JENN LYONS

There is a wild man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.

When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past, both the green magic of the woods and the dark things that rest in its heart.

“Alive with old magic, Silver in the Wood made my hair stand on end even as it beckoned me to go deeper, and in the end I couldn’t resist.”
C. L. POLK

Cover art and design by David Curtis

A Tor.com Book
Tom Doherty Associates
www.tor.com

Printed in the USA

US $17.99 / CAN $24.99
ISBN 978-1-250-22979-3

Blaise Faint @handle.invalid · 30/04/2026

Back Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
“Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride.”
—TAMSYN MUIR, New York Times bestselling author of the Locked Tomb series

“Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

“A thrilling page-turner with fascinating ideas.” —THE WASHINGTON POST

WHILE WE LIVE, THE ENEMY SHALL FEAR US.

Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.

Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she could have imagined.

“This book will hurt you and you will say thank you.”
—OLIVIE BLAKE, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

“Will have you cheering, laughing, swearing, and ugly-crying.”
—ALIX E. HARROW, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House

“Powerful, urgent, unmistakably real.”
—M. R. CAREY, author of The Girl with All the Gifts

“This book hit me like a lightning bolt.”
—EVERINA MAXWELL, author of Winter’s Orbit

“Fierce and heartbreakingly humane.”
—SHELLEY PARKER-CHAN, Sunday Times bestselling author of She Who Became the Sun

“The debut novel every novelist hopes to write.”
—JOHN SCALZI, New York Times bestselling author of Starter Villain

ISBN 978-1-250-83500-0

Cover art by Cynthia Sheppard
Cover design by Christine Foltzer