{"title":"Lex Croucher","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-unmagical-life-of-briar-jones","title":"The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones","description":"'A wondrous book' \u003cb\u003eJOHN GREEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Funny, devastating, achingly romantic' \u003cb\u003eOLIVIE BLAKE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The freshest contemporary fantasy I've read in years' \u003cb\u003eLAURA STEVEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Wildly creative, very funny, and searingly angry' \u003cb\u003eFREYA MARSKE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is dark academia as it should be written' \u003cb\u003eBEA FITZGERALD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Croucher is a master of the craft' \u003cb\u003eKAT DUNN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delicious' \u003cb\u003eTHE FANTASY HIVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, Nero Award-shortlisted, TikTok Book of the Year-shortlisted, and YA Book Prize-winning Lex Croucher comes your new dark academia obsession . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBriar always dreamed of attending the Temple School of Thaumaturgy, the elite boarding school that's produced the most CEOs and Prime Ministers in history, long rumoured to be magical. Briar's best friend, Sebastian, just wanted them to stay together forever.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Sebastian gets an acceptance letter and Briar doesn't, their relationship is shattered - until, at eighteen, Briar secures a temp job sorting through the magical junk in Temple's attic, and discovers that quiet, sensitive Sebastian, the boy they once loved more than anything else in the world, has become the villain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDark academia\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emeets contemporary fantasy in this timely page-turner about a student \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewho fails to gain admission to the UK's only school of magic but then gets a job there years later and unearths the ugly secrets simmering behind its ancient walls - unmissable for fans of \u003ci\u003eBabel \u003c\/i\u003eby R.F. Kuang and \u003ci\u003eNinth House \u003c\/i\u003eby Leigh Bardugo.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gollancz","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55967141364091,"sku":"9781399624633","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2642\/0664\/files\/9781399624633-original.jpg?v=1770802471"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2642\/0664\/collections\/getimage_f8e4b0ca-a18d-4424-848f-5934fefc4ff4.jpg?v=1776149942","url":"https:\/\/store.gollancz.co.uk\/collections\/author-lex-croucher.oembed","provider":"Gollancz","version":"1.0","type":"link"}