The Mars House

Few writers combine such warmth and heart with such consummate skill as Natasha Pulley… Reading her is both a joyful and profound experience - and The Mars House is her most daring, ambitious, and exciting book yet’ * CATRIONA WARD, Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street *Simply unputdownable - hilarious, ingenious, and full of warmth, The Mars House asks important questions about what it means to be human, and doesn’t shy away from nuanced conversations about immigration, climate breakdown, and augmented reality. Plus it has talking mammoths and a very clever twist. What’s not to love? * THOMAS D. LEE, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Perilous Times *This is a book about language, how new society subcultures form, gender, mammoths, and space… I want to live inside Natasha Pulley’s brain - and I would happily read a thousand more pages set on Mars. The incredible arranged marriage queer romance was just an added bonus. Book of the year for me * LAUREN JAMES, Carnegie-shortlisted author of The Quiet at the End of the World *Already one of my favourite books of the year… There’s palace intrigue, a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers plot, sassy footnotes, and also there are mammoths! It’s a total delight from start to finish * LITERARY HUB *Pulley astonishes in this thorny and addictive sci-fi romance * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *Readers will appreciate all the delightful details of worldbuilding, character arcs, and slow romantic tension. Exquisitely layered and entertaining, Pulley’s latest novel is a queer tale of planetary refugees, politics, and populist views (and mammoths).“Readers will appreciate all the delightful details of worldbuilding, character arcs, and slow romantic tension. Exquisitely layered and entertaining, Pulley’s latest novel is a queer tale of planetary refugees, politics, and populist views (and mammoths) * LIBRARY JOURNAL *Pulley has wrapped an enemies-to-lovers, fake-marriage romance in a fascinating sci-fi world package… Magnetic… Charming… Readers will have incredible fun reading about this slow-burn romance, the itch of two creepy background mysteries, and a delightful scene involving judgmental mammoths * BOOKLIST *

NATASHA PULLEY is the internationally bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. She has won a Betty Trask Award, been shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and been longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.

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