{"product_id":"josiah-bancroft-the-hexologists-2023-paperback","title":"Josiah Bancroft: The Hexologists [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSenlin Ascends\u003c\/i\u003e comes t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe first book in a wildly inventive new fantasy series where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Bancroft is a wonder as ever!\u003ci\u003e The Hexologists\u003c\/i\u003e was a joyous delight on every page - buoyantly inventive, witty, poignant, gripping, and deeply satisfying' \u003c\/b\u003eMadeline Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake - going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven - the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent antiroyalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArmed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fantastic! \u003ci\u003eThe Hexologists \u003c\/i\u003efizzes eloquently with wit and elegance, but also has marvellous worldbuilding and an excellent plot - and a central pair of characters who I quite simply love. A cocktail of a book made with the very best champagne' \u003c\/b\u003eGenevieve Cogman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bancroft, Josiah","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48091495563603,"sku":"9780356519067","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/bancroft-josiah-josiah-bancroft-the-hexologists-2023-paperback-9780356519067-55718776078675.jpg?v=1728202811","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/josiah-bancroft-the-hexologists-2023-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}