Grave Empire by Richard Swan - ISBN: 9780356523880
Paperback
Gunpowder, magic, and dread collide as an empire faces the end of days.

Grave Empire

the Sunday Times bestelling epic fantasy of gunpowder, arcane powers and dark prophecy (Book One of The Great Silence)

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  • Paperback

    560 pages

  • Release Date

    20 January 2026

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Summary

*The instant Sunday Times bestseller*

‘Dazzling and immersive epic fantasy’ Publishers Weekly (starred review)

‘An absolute treat … crammed with imagination, horror, epic scale, and characters I simply could not put down’ Grimdark Magazine

ENTER A WORLD WHERE GUNPOWDER, ARCANE FORCES AND RUTHLESS AMBITION COLLIDE

Blood once turned the wheels of empire. Now it is money.

A new age of exploration and innovation h…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780356523880
ISBN-10:0356523888
Author:Richard Swan
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orbit
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Release Date:20 January 2026
Weight:380g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 38mm
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Critics Review

Dazzling and immersive epic fantasy * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A truly remarkable page-turning, flintlock fantasy horror * Fantasy Hive *

About The Author

Richard Swan

Richard Swan is a critically acclaimed British genre writer. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Empire of the Wolf and Great Silence trilogies, as well as fiction for Black Library and Grimdark Magazine. His work has been translated into nine languages.

Richard is a qualified lawyer, and before writing full-time spent ten years litigating multi-million-pound commercial disputes in London. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and three young sons.

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