The Mars House

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Natasha Pulley

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Gollancz
25 June 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction

'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON

'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD

'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE

'A work of staggering genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD

'Charming and funny and perfectly paced' TEMI OH

'A spiritual heir to Terry Pratchett' ROBIN STEVENS

'Book of the year for me' LAUREN JAMES

January Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London's Royal Ballet. Now he's a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It's a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it's a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination.

But he will live.

Aubrey Gale, energy trillionaire and hereditary senator, is running for election on a hardline platform to protect the native population from dangerous immigrants. The path to equality is simple, requiring all Earthstrongers who choose to come to Mars to undergo the disabling and sometimes fatal process of surgical naturalisation.

Which is no life at all.

When a disastrous media encounter plunges Aubrey and January's lives into chaos, the solution is a five-year made-for-reality-TV marriage that could secure January's future and ensure Aubrey's political success . . . but it soon becomes clear that thousands of lives hang in the balance, and nothing is as it seems.

Timely and utterly unputdownable, The Mars House is an exceptional genre-blending story about privilege, strength, life, and love across class divisions - perfect for fans of Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

By: Natasha Pulley
Imprint: Gollancz
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9781399618533
ISBN 10: 1399618539
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 25 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

NATASHA PULLEY is the internationally bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. She has won a Betty Trask Award, been shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and been longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.

Reviews for The Mars House: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Few writers combine such warmth and heart with such consummate skill as Natasha Pulley... Reading her is both a joyful and profound experience - and The Mars House is her most daring, ambitious, and exciting book yet' * CATRIONA WARD, Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street * Simply unputdownable - hilarious, ingenious, and full of warmth, The Mars House asks important questions about what it means to be human, and doesn't shy away from nuanced conversations about immigration, climate breakdown, and augmented reality. Plus it has talking mammoths and a very clever twist. What's not to love? * THOMAS D. LEE, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Perilous Times * This is a book about language, how new society subcultures form, gender, mammoths, and space... I want to live inside Natasha Pulley's brain - and I would happily read a thousand more pages set on Mars. The incredible arranged marriage queer romance was just an added bonus. Book of the year for me * LAUREN JAMES, Carnegie-shortlisted author of The Quiet at the End of the World * Already one of my favourite books of the year... There's palace intrigue, a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers plot, sassy footnotes, and also there are mammoths! It's a total delight from start to finish * LITERARY HUB * Pulley astonishes in this thorny and addictive sci-fi romance * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * Readers will appreciate all the delightful details of worldbuilding, character arcs, and slow romantic tension. Exquisitely layered and entertaining, Pulley's latest novel is a queer tale of planetary refugees, politics, and populist views (and mammoths).''Readers will appreciate all the delightful details of worldbuilding, character arcs, and slow romantic tension. Exquisitely layered and entertaining, Pulley's latest novel is a queer tale of planetary refugees, politics, and populist views (and mammoths) * LIBRARY JOURNAL * Pulley has wrapped an enemies-to-lovers, fake-marriage romance in a fascinating sci-fi world package... Magnetic... Charming... Readers will have incredible fun reading about this slow-burn romance, the itch of two creepy background mysteries, and a delightful scene involving judgmental mammoths * BOOKLIST *