'Brilliant ' - Publishers Weekly 'I loved it ' - Django Wexler 'An engrossing intoxicating delight' - Forbidden Planet 'An extraordinary debut that is well worthy of the hype. this quiet man of letters must become a man of action. Though over seven hundred pages, The Fall of Babel flies at a breathless pace that left me itching to pick the book up again. And if he hopes to ever see his wife again, he will have to do more than just survive. The story follows Tom and his merry band of followers as race to save the tower from Marat and his hods, and their dynamic relationships, which drive the plot as much as the need to stop Marat. To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel - a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder, of unusual animals and mysterious machines. So when he loses his new bride shortly after embarking on the honeymoon of their dreams, he is ill-prepared for the trouble that follows.

When he is not writing, he enjoys playing post-pop music with his band, Dirt Dirt, drawing chalk pictures on his office wall, and cooking pub curry for his wife, Sharon. While Edith wars for the soul of the young woman, a greater crisis looms: They will have to face Marat on unequal footing and with Senlin caught in the crossfire.Īnd when the Bridge of Babel is finally opened, and the Brick Layer’s true ambition revealed, neither they nor the Tower will ever be the same again.'Gracefully written, deliriously imaginative, action-packed, warm, witty and thought-provoking' Madeline Miller, author of Circe 'One of my favourite books of all time' - Mark Lawrence, author of Prince of Thorns 'I'm wildly in love with this book' - Pierce Brown, author of Red Rising DISCOVER THE EXTRAORDINARY DEBUT THAT HAS GOT EVERYONE TALKING Mild-mannered headmaster, Thomas Senlin prefers his adventures to be safely contained within the pages of a book. The Fall of Babel Author Bio: Josiah Bancroft Josiah Bancroft was a poet, college instructor, and aspiring comic book artist before he began to write novels. The Tower of Babel in Bancroft’s imagination might carry such metaphysical weight, but it is no myth to Thomas Senlin. She seems to share more in common with the Red Hand now than her former self. It has been his dream to visit the illusive Tower of Babel.

Thomas Senlin is the headmaster in his tiny fishing village. As Adam unravels the mystery of his fame, he soon discovers the crowning ringdom conceals a much darker secret.Īboard the State of Art, Edith and her crew adjust to the reality that Voleta has awoken from death changed. The Tower of Babel series begins with Senlin Ascends. In the city under glass at the Tower’s summit, Adam discovers a utopia where everyone inexplicably knows the details of his past. The leader of the zealots is bound for the Sphinx’s lair and the unimaginable power it contains. Caught in a charade, Senlin desperately tries to sabotage the rampaging Hod King, even as Marat’s objective grows increasingly clear. As Marat’s siege engine bores through the Tower, erupting inside ringdoms and leaving chaos in its wake, Senlin can do nothing but observe the mayhem from inside the belly of the beast.

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