TJ Klune

A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything. The number one New York Times bestselling sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea. **ALL first-run paperbacks include a beautiful sprayed edge of the Phoenix's burning fire . . . Available while stocks last** – Winner of the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy – Arthur Parnassus has built a good life on the ashes of a bad one. He’s headmaster at an orphanage for magical children on a peculiar island, assisted by the love of his life, Linus Baker. And together, they’ll do anything to protect their extraordinary and powerful charges. However, when Arthur is forced to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself fighting for those under his care. It’s also a fight for the better future that all magical people deserve. Then, when a new magical child joins their island home, Arthur knows they’ve reached breaking point. The child finds power in calling himself a monster, a name Arthur has tried so hard to banish to protect his children. Challenged from within and without, their volatile family might grow stronger. Or everything Arthur loves could fall apart. Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it. ‘An enchanting sequel about found family’ – The New York Times Praise for The House in the Cerulean Sea: ‘I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect’ – V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ‘It will renew your faith in humanity’ – Terry Brooks, author of the Shannara series ‘Will sweep you away’ – The New York Times Somewhere Beyond the Sea was a number one New York Times bestseller w/c 16 September 2024

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller and heart-warming sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

oh this dedication in addition to that person emailing him about how they hated this book because it “shoved politics down their throat”? this is gonna be sooooo good

Cassidy Nolan

The boy. The boy with the fire has come home.

He banished the voice to the depths of his mind, and as the ferry grew closer, Arthur Parnassus began to sing quietly under his breath. “Somewhere . . . beyond the sea . . . somewhere, waiting for me . . .”

Chauncey’s eyes leaned forward, stopping only a couple of inches from Phee’s face. “Do you remember when Talia tried to make pecan pie but we were out of pecans so she used candy corn instead and there was so much sugar in it, Linus said it’d rot our teeth, but we ate it anyway and didn’t sleep for three days because we could all smell colors?”

i adore these characters with every fiber of my being

But before he could finish, Lucy yelled in unfettered joy, “You can breathe 

 Holy crap, Theodore! Let’s burn everything!”

“This is what happens when you sleep late,” Linus muttered. “Just when you think you’re getting extra rest, someone breathes fire.”

“But I believe the greatest weapon we have at our disposal is our voices. And I am going to use my voice for you, and for me. Hate is loud. We are louder.”

He laughed, and it felt like the sun coming out after the rain. “I . . . when I lived in the city, I dreamed in color, of places where the sea stretched on for miles and miles.” He looked at each of the children in turn. “But what I didn’t expect was that the color didn’t come from the ocean, or the trees, or even the island itself. It came from all of you.” He blinked rapidly, throat working. “This has been the best birt. Thank you. You’ve made me the happiest I’ve ever been.”

His tie was a lovely shade of reddish-orange, the color of fire. It was not lost on Arthur the reason Linus had picked that tie in particular: a little sign, a burst of flame in the muted gray of this rain-drenched city.

Arthur, too, wore a suit. His coat and trousers were navy blue, his dress shirt covered in blooms that reminded him of Talia’s garden. The top plastic button at his throat had been replaced by a brass one, sewn on with care. His tie was a wonderful shade of green, not unlike a certain bellhop. His shortened trousers revealed gray socks with little fluffy Pomeranians on them. Pinned to his shirt, a small gold leaf plucked from a tree on the island grown by a forest sprite. On his jacket, a pocket square, black with little red devil horns on it.

“Yes,” Sal said, eyes alight with mirth. “That’s exactly right. Lucy has magic banana powers.”

“He’s a magic banana boy,” Phee agreed.

“That sounds like the name of a band,” Lucy said. “Ladies and gentlemen, presenting . . . Anal Leakage! Guess what kind of music we’d play?”

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