Set in alternative contemporary Britain controlled by a magically-gifted elite. Two families, one all-powerful, the other in servitude – battle for the soul of England and the existence of magic itself.
Gilded Cage was a 2018 World Book Night Pick and a Radio 2 Book Club selection. It was shortlisted for the Compton Crook Award and and won the 2018 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse at Europe’s biggest SFF awards.
“A dazzling addition to the growing genre of alternative historical fiction, James’s first novel has the added bonus of compelling page-turnability’”
Daily Mail
“The historical parallels are too delicious to ignore . . . one can’t help but anticipate the next novel in the series”
Washington Post