{"product_id":"hexologists-book-josiah-bancroft-9780316443302","title":"The Hexologists","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists. \"Bancroft is a magician.\" -- Madeline Miller, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Fantastic! \u003ci\u003eThe Hexologists\u003c\/i\u003e fizzes eloquently with wit and elegance, but also has marvelous worldbuilding and an excellent plot - and a central pair of characters who I quite simply love. A cocktail of a book made with the very best champagne.\" -- Genevieve Cogman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake--going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven--the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent anti-royalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for a case that will test every spell, skill, and odd magical artifact in their considerable bag of tricks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Bancroft is a wonder as ever! \u003ci\u003eThe Hexologists\u003c\/i\u003e was a joyous delight on every page-- buoyantly inventive, witty, poignant, gripping, and deeply satisfying.\" -- Madeline Miller, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Josiah Bancroft's imagination will astound you. One of the most inventive fantasy authors out there.\" -- Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Bancroft has returned to the page in force, deploying his crystal prose and razored wit around a tale that mixes whimsy and threat in equal measure. He's a gift to the genre\u003ci\u003e.\" \u003c\/i\u003e-- Mark Lawrence, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book That Wouldn't Burn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49970087919889,"sku":"CIN0316443301G","price":4.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50065372774673,"sku":"CIN0316443301VG","price":6.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001031786769,"sku":"NIN9780316443302","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325262070033,"sku":"CIN0316443301A","price":6.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53615444492561,"sku":"GOR014982532","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316443301.jpg?v=1773316582","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hexologists-book-josiah-bancroft-9780316443302","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}