Acclaimed winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
The award-winning first fantasy novel from New York Times bestselling writer Tim Lebbon
Kosar the thief senses that Rafe Baburn is no ordinary boy. After witnessing a Red Monk plunder Rafe's village and murder his parents, Kosar knows the boy needs his help. And now, for reasons he cannot fathom, others are seeking the boy's destruction.
Uncertain where to begin Kosar turns to A'Meer, an ex-lover and Shantasi warrior whose people, unbeknownst to him, have sworn to safeguard magic's return to the land of Noreela.
It is Rafe who bears this miracle of magic.
Now Kosar and a band of unexpected allies embark on a battle to protect one special boy. But horrific dark forces are closing in, and if they take magic for themselves dusk will fall forever..
Praise for Dusk
“An exquisitely written, unique world is revealed in this novel... It’s rare indeed to witness the conventions of fantasy so thoroughly grabbed by the throat and shaken awake the way Tim Lebbon has done with Dusk. Even more enticing, this first novel in the series concludes with a jaw-dropping finale, and for what it’s worth, such a reaction from me is not a common occurrence.” – Steven Erikson, author of The Malazan Book of the Fallen series
“This is fantasy for grown-ups - and the ending made my jaw drop. This is an excellent book.” – Paul Kearney, author of The Mark of Ran
“Dusk is a deliciously dark and daring fantasy novel, proof of a startling imagination at work.” - Christopher Golden, author of Ararat
“Dusk is dark, twisted and visceral, with a very shocking sting in the tail - the perfect jolt for anyone jaded by the creaking shelves of cuddly, rent-an-elf fantasy.” – Mark Chadbourn, author of The Age of Misrule and The Dark Age
“Tim Lebbon is a master of fantasy and horror, and his visions make for disturbing and compelling reading.” – Douglas Clegg, author of The Priest of Blood
“In Dusk, Tim Lebbon has etched a powerful new version/telling of the traditional magical quest, whose tortured twists and turns will (alternately) disturb and electrify its readers.” – Sarah Ash, author of Prisoner of the Iron Tower
“Tim Lebbon writes with a pen dipped in the dark stuff of nightmare. The world he creates is eerie, brutal and complex, and the story abounds with action and menace.” – K.J. Bishop, the author of The Etched City
"A Riveting Work of Staggering Imagination." - F. Paul Wilson, author of the Repairman Jack series
"As far as fantasy worlds go, Noreela is among the most imaginative & absorbing that I’ve had the pleasure to explore" - Fantasy Book Critic
"Shades of Cook and Erikson here in the book’s violence, Mieville in it’s contemporary weirdness and perhaps most strongly Paul Kearney here, in that combination of horror, decay and squalor, though Lebbon is clearly his own voice." - SFF World
"Dusk is a great read and another reason for me to point to Tim Lebbon as one of the most talented authors working today." - Dread Central
"As 'Dusk' descends on the land in a truly shocking ending, one weirder and more horrifying than any I’ve ever read, all that remains for the reader is an all-encompassing desire to know: what happens next?" - The Agony Column
"...even if you consider yourself a veteran fantasy reader, you will be taken to appealing strange worlds." - S. E. Lindberg
"Well-drawn characters and a literate way with the grisly distinguish this first of a new fantasy series." - Publishers' Weekly
"The bleak tone and setting, which includes drugs and whores aplenty, counterpoint with dark effectiveness those fantasies that focus on highborn royalty and knights in shining armor. If any armor shines here, it’s because it’s covered in blood." - Kirkus
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