Peadar Ó Guilín's superb BONE WORLD TRILOGY back in print

Peadar Ó Guilín has reissued his excellent debut Bone World Trilogy, putting the entire trilogy in print in a unified format for the first time.

The trilogy comprises The Inferior (2007), The Deserter (2012) and The Volunteer (2014), and tells the story of a Darwinian struggle for survival between tribesfolk and monsters in a harsh world. As the story develops, it brings in SF ideas and unexpected plot twists that remain fresh and inventive.

Ó Guilín won plaudits for his recent YA dystopian duology, comprising The Call (2016) and The Invasion (2018).

The Bone World Trilogy is available now in ebook via Amazon and Smashwords. Paperbacks will follow in the New Year.

Peadar Ó Guilín publishing news

Way back in the day I reviewed Peadar Ó Guilín's debut novel, The Inferior, the first book in the Bone World Trilogy. It was an excellent read and one of the highlights of 2007. The second novel, The Deserter, was published in 2011.

Unfortunately, despite excellent reviews, the first two books in the series did not sell as well as expected. As a result, Random House have dropped plans to publish the concluding volume of the trilogy, The Volunteer (which seems a bit short-sighted in these days when so many people wait for a series to be fully published before reading it). Fortunately, the author will still be publishing the book as an ebook in 2014. Random House will also be publishing a new, stand alone dystopian novel from Ó Guilín, Eat the Drink, in May 2015.

Peadar Ó Guilín's THE DESERTER is now on sale

The Deserter, the sequel to Peadar Ó Guilín's excellent 2007 debut The Inferior and the second in The Bone World Trilogy, is released today in the UK. I haven't had a chance to get round to it yet, but if it's half as good as the first book, it'll likely be one of the highlights of the year, so it should be well worth a look.

The humans are weak and vulnerable. Soon the beasts that share their stone-age world will kill and eat them. To save his tribe, Stopmouth must make his way to the Roof, the mysterious hi-tech world above the surface.

But the Roof has its own problems. The nano technology that controls everything from the environment to the human body is collapsing. A virus has already destroyed the Upstairs, sending millions of refugees to seek shelter below. And now a rebellion against the Commission, organized by the fanatical Religious, is about to break.

Hunted by the Commission’s Elite Agents through the overcrowded, decaying city of the future, Stopmouth must succeed in a hunt of his own: to find the secret power hidden in the Roof’s computerized brain, and return to his people before it is too late.

Peadar Ó Guilín has followed his extraordinary debut The Inferior with an equally original and pulse-racing sequel in which human primitivism collides with futuristic technology.

Cover art for THE DESERTER.

Peadar O Guilin has posted the cover for his second novel, The Deserter, to his blog. This is the sequel to his excellent 2007 debut, The Inferior, and the middle volume of The Bone World Trilogy.


The novel has a current, tentative release date of May 2011 and is one of my more eagerly-awaited books for this year.