The Amulet of Samarkand

About the Author

Stroud edited children’s books in London before writing them. The Bartimaeus sequence is narrated partly by a five-thousand-year-old djinni whose footnotes mock the magicians enslaving him, a device that let a children’s fantasy carry a real argument about colonial power. Lockwood and Co sends teenage…

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