Bloomsbury acquires urban fantasy series by Oxford undergraduate Samantha Shannon

Bloomsbury has pre-empted world English rights in The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon in a major three book deal and will publish the first of the seven book series in print and ebook globally on 12th September 2013, after the author graduates from Oxford University. Bloomsbury Editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle moved swiftly to acquire the series from David Godwin at DGA the week of the London Book Fair, ahead of meetings with other publishers