Natasha Pulley is the internationally bestselling author of seven books, including The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Mars House, and The Hymn to Dionysus. She has won a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.

"Pulley brings out her favorite 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, starred review on THE HYMN TO DIONYSUS

"A queer love story wrapped up in questions about the end of empire and the need for revelry-quite fitting for 2025." --Town & Country on THE HYMN TO DIONYSUS

"Delightful . . . moves as nimbly as its ballet-dancer hero . . . pivoting toward something that's both nuanced and fresh. The result is both an epic love story and a deft political thriller." --The Washington Post on THE MARS HOUSE

"Beautiful, surreal imagery appears throughout the novel, too . . . Clear a weekend if you can, and let yourself be absorbed." --The New York Times Book Review on THE KINGDOMS

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Pub date: 2026-08-18

Length: 464 pages