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September Publishing has scooped author Manda Scott’s new novel, Any Human Power, described as a "paean to possibility".
Publisher Hannah MacDonald pre-empted world all languages from agent Robert Caskie, and the book will be published in the summer 2024.
Activist, podcaster and novelist Scott’s Boudica and Rome series (Transworld) were followed by Treachery of Spies (Corgi). Any Human Power, her 16th book, is described as a "visionary, myth-infused tour-de force about a grandmother and her family who find themselves at the centre of a global uprising".
MacDonald said: "Any Human Power is a mythic novel in the best sense – grand in scope, rich in brave characters that are breathing new life into the old wisdoms, dreaming their way into a better future. For readers of Claire North’s Notes from the Burning Age [Orbit], as well as Naomi Alderman and Neil Gaiman, the novel offers a world beyond dystopia; in the tradition of the great Ursula K Le Guin, it offers a storyline to a world we’d be proud to leave to our children."
Scott added: "Any Human Power is a paean to possibility, a call to action wrapped in a thriller, encased in myth and magic. Without four years hosting the ’Accidental Gods’ podcast, speaking every week to the very people at the leading edge of our emergence into a new system, I would have had no idea of what was possible."