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Samantha Shannon’s second book in her Roots of Chaos cycle is out today – and she chatted at length with Paul Simpson about its creation – as well as The Bone Season and much more.

I had to develop quite a significant world and history for The Priory, so when I was looking at it, there was this particular event in Priory’s history that comes up multiple times throughout the narrative called The Grief of Ages or The Great Sorrow. I looked at that and thought, ‘Oh God, I’m just so tempted to write that.’ It’s interesting: I’m not really drawn to war novels, I can’t stand writing battles. The hardest thing about writing for me is writing battles and I knew this was going to inevitably be some kind of war book.

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