Natasha Pulley for the Hymn to Dionysus

We are beyond excited to be hosting internationally best-selling author Natasha Pulley in celebration of her enthralling and mythical upcoming novel, the Hymn to Dionysus

"This is more than a story of love and escape and broken chains. This is more than an exquisitely crafted tale. This book is a candle in a dark hour." Maya Deane

"A dazzling labyrinth of a book that pulls you in with both hands. Pulley's wild, charismatic Dionysus is sure to win your heart, and Phaidros's indefatigable spirit and wry humour will keep readers glued to the page. A fitting tribute to the god of divine madness." Luna McNamara

"Pulley brings out her favourite elements-palace intrigue, gallant lovers, masks, transformations, ambiguity, automata-and twists them into mesmerizing patterns . . . This love story is witty, bittersweet, surprising, and compellingly readable." Kirkus Reviews

A timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra.

Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he's never seen and to follow his commander's orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes's palace, his commander's orders cease to make sense: Phaidros is forced to abandon the blue-eyed boy at a temple, and to keep the baby's existence a secret.

Years later, Phaidros is drawn into the search for Thebes's missing crown prince - a search that leads him to a blue-eyed witch named Dionysus, whose guidance is as wise as the events that surround him are strange.

In The Hymn to Dionysus, bestselling author Natasha Pulley transports us to an ancient empire on the edge of ruin to tell an utterly captivating story about a man needing a god to remind him how to be a human.

Natasha Pulley is the internationally bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. She has won a Betty Trask Award, been shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and been longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.