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The Incandescent

by Emily Tesh
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Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions.
Walden is good at her job—no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It's her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it's possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from—is herself.
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    May 13, 2025

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2025

      Tesh (author of the Hugo Award-winning Some Desperate Glory, an LJ Best Book) writes a sapphic dark academia fantasy. Doctor Walden, one of the most powerful magicians in England, is director of magic at the centuries-old Chetwood Academy, where she teaches and protects the school from demons. But she must also keep the school safe from herself. With a 75K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

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      Starred review from April 1, 2025
      The magical-school generation has grown up quite a bit and gone through some trouble besides. But here is a story they'll devour, and deserve. Tesh, (Hugo Award-winning author of Some Desperate Glory, 2023), brings readers to Chetwood School, an elite institution ruled over by the sensible, powerful Doctor Saff Walden. Being a teacher is Walden's calling. She's quite good at it, and her work is her life. When a demon starts pressing at the wards of the school, she and irritating Marshall Laura Kenning investigate. But Walden will soon find that the threats to the school run deeper than she's prepared to face. Tesh's novel climaxes, steadies, then builds to a finally blazing, raging final act. Anyone who's ever been an educator, in particular, will love Walden and everything that goes into her love for the school and the cogs that make it run as well as the passion that keeps it going. Powered by instantly relatable characters, peppered with the witty ironies of adulthood and growing up, and scattered with tangible imagery, magic tattoos, vape imps, and possessed school printers, this stand-alone fantasy will be an instant classic among former fans of Professor McGonagall of Harry Potter fame.

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