'Enchanting, smart, and subversive - El-Arifi's masterpiece' R. F. KUANG
'Lush world-building and lyrical prose burn brightly on every page' JENNIFER SAINT
'Addictive and entertaining' STYLIST
'An extraordinary achievement' SAMANTHA SHANNON
*Limited Collector's Edition featuring foiled board design and designed endpapers available to the first print run only whilst supplies last*
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YOU KNOW MY NAME.
BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.
Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.
Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.
Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.
How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule.
Death will silence me no longer.
This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.
From one of the most remarkable and acclaimed storytellers of her generation, the #1 bestselling author of FAEBOUND and THE FINAL STRIFE, this epic and groundbreaking new novel shows us Cleopatra on her own terms.



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