{"product_id":"the-age-of-calamities-by-senaa-ahmad-9781805338109","title":"The Age of Calamities","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn astounding debut, so full of wonder, outrage, invention, fireworks, sheer brilliance'  \n\u003cbr\u003eEdward Carey, author of 'Little'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Subversive, hilarious and shockingly original'  \n\u003cbr\u003eRosanna Pike, author of 'A Little Trickerie'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A true, unique talent'  \n\u003cbr\u003eKat Dunn, author of 'Hungerstone'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStep into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHenry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but there's just one small problem: she's alive again by morning, sipping tea at the breakfast table.  \n\u003cbr\u003eIn the gilded hush of the Winter Palace, the Romanov sisters slip through time and waltz aboard a spaceship bound for the stars.  \n\u003cbr\u003eA woman on the run strikes a sinister bargain with the ghost of Joan of Arc, but can she reclaim her body before sunrise?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith flickers of horror and dark humour, 'The Age of Calamities' catapults us through sentient houses, looping timelines and haunted histories.  \n\u003cbr\u003eFiercely inventive and wickedly playful, these stories mark the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction—inviting the reader to confront the past, the present and themselves, all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Age of Calamities:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Surreal, funny and endlessly thought-provoking'  \n\u003cbr\u003eDazed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An addictive blend of imagination and wit'  \n\u003cbr\u003eKatherine J. Chen, author of 'Joan'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Full of imaginative daring and electrifying humour'  \n\u003cbr\u003eNaomi Booth, author of 'Animals at Night'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The past comes to unexpected, vivid life in these speculative short stories'  \n\u003cbr\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wonderful writing that had me in its grasp to the very last sentence'  \n\u003cbr\u003eNydia Hetherington, author of 'Sycorax'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Stunning in its power, purpose and ambition'  \n\u003cbr\u003eMaggie Su, author of 'Blob: A Love Story'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Dazzlingly inventive'  \n\u003cbr\u003eKelly Link, author of 'White Cat, Black Dog'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wild, incantatory, upending'  \n\u003cbr\u003eClaire Oshetsky, author of 'Evil Genius'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved Ahmad's perilously playful journeys to other timescapes'  \n\u003cbr\u003eLeon Craig, author of 'Parallel Hells'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Senaa Ahmad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56895065850229,"sku":"9781805338109","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781805338109.jpg?v=1773317820","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/the-age-of-calamities-by-senaa-ahmad-9781805338109","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}