A primary reading series developed with UCL Institute of Education to help children become confident, independent readers.
Meet the Curse Workers – the fan favourite urban fantasy trilogy by global phenomenon Holly Black – now reborn in these unmissable new editions with stunning reimagined covers and updated texts never before published in the UK!
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers – wielders of a dark magic with the power to change your emotions, your memories, even your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work was ruled illegal nearly a century ago, they’re all criminals.
But not Cassel. He hasn’t got the magic touch, so he’s always been an outsider – the straight kid in a crooked family. As long as you ignore one small detail: he killed his best friend, Lila.
Now he’s started sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. As Cassel begins to suspect he’s part of a huge con game, he realises the only way to find out the truth is to outcon the conmen.
Murder mystery meets urban fantasy in the spellbinding world of the Curse Workers, where a single touch can bring love – or death – and your dreams might be more real than your memories. Brimming with dark magic, jaw-dropping twists, and a dash of romance, this iconic series is perfect for fans of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and Vicious by V. E. Schwab.
PRAISE FOR THE CURSE WORKERS SERIES
‘Witty, twisty, and impossible to put down’ LEIGH BARDUGO
‘Dangerously, darkly gorgeous fantasy’ CASSANDRA CLARE
‘An exercise in stellar worldbuilding’ V. E. SCHWAB
‘Her most riveting work yet’ SCOTT WESTERFIELD
‘A stunning tour de force’ LIBBA BRAY
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers – wielders of a dark magic with the power to change your emotions, your memories, even your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work was ruled illegal nearly a century ago, they’re all criminals.
But not Cassel. He hasn’t got the magic touch, so he’s always been an outsider – the straight kid in a crooked family. As long as you ignore one small detail: he killed his best friend, Lila.
Now he’s started sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. As Cassel begins to suspect he’s part of a huge con game, he realises the only way to find out the truth is to outcon the conmen.
Murder mystery meets urban fantasy in the spellbinding world of the Curse Workers, where a single touch can bring love – or death – and your dreams might be more real than your memories. Brimming with dark magic, jaw-dropping twists, and a dash of romance, this iconic series is perfect for fans of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and Vicious by V. E. Schwab.
PRAISE FOR THE CURSE WORKERS SERIES
‘Witty, twisty, and impossible to put down’ LEIGH BARDUGO
‘Dangerously, darkly gorgeous fantasy’ CASSANDRA CLARE
‘An exercise in stellar worldbuilding’ V. E. SCHWAB
‘Her most riveting work yet’ SCOTT WESTERFIELD
‘A stunning tour de force’ LIBBA BRAY
Reviews
Prepare to be entangled by a new kind of black magic. White Cat is her most riveting work yet
A stunning tour de force of magic, crime, romance, and double- and triple-crosses with an end that you will never see coming
Witty, twisty, and impossible to put down, Holly Black's Curse Workers series delivers magical heists and a young conman who is as flawed as he is brilliant. This is the kind of story - full of delightful, daring narrative sleight of hand - that kept me guessing with every page and that I won't soon forget
Dangerously, darkly gorgeous fantasy
An exercise in stellar worldbuilding