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Who Wants to Live Forever by Hanna Thomas Uose

What happens to loving each other forever when your soulmate decides living forever is more important?

“The best book I’ve read this year”
— Aja Barber, contributing editor at ELLE
“‘Dazzling: a cold hard reckoning with reality; a constantly surprising feat of imagination, philosophy, humanity, warmth and love.’”
— Jessica Stanley , author of forthcoming CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED

Who Wants to Live Forever

by Hanna Thomas Uose

PUBLISHED BY BRAZEN

27 March 2024 |  Hardback  |  £16.99

What if you had the chance to remain at your exact age for the next thirty years? What if you could extend your life potentially forever?

Would you have a new lease on life, literally, and do the things you never thought you'd have time to do?

Would you be more or less ambitious because you knew time was on your side?

Would 'growing old together' with the person you love still mean something?

Yuki and Sam are soulmates.

They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together.

They are supposed to love one another, forever.

But when a miracle drug is created which can extend a human's life, indefinitely, Sam decides to live forever, rather than love Yuki forever.

What comes next is a time-bending, decades-long, world-building epic set across the globe and narrated by an intersecting cast of characters. Who Wants to Live Forever is the greatest romance you will ever read without the happily ever after.

THE AUTHOR

Hanna Thomas Uose is a British Japanese writer living in London. In 2023, she completed the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was shortlisted for Orion and DHA's Space to Write Project and was selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme. She has spent the last sixteen years working in advocacy and campaigns, working with organizations such as 350.org, Free Tibet, Greenpeace International, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Level Up, Liberty, and UN Global Pulse.

X - @hannathomas / Instagram - @hannamade

Hanna is available for interview, features and events.

Talking points / feature ideas:

  • The quest for immortality in the modern world

  • How to navigate life without ‘milestones’ after the age of 40 (and when your communities diverge from those of your friends)

  • Young women and anti-aging procedures (and ageing and the workplace)

  • Why it is that men seem more obsessed with immortality

  • Publishing after 40

“‘Who Wants to Live Forever probes and searches like the best fiction does. Powerful. Highly compelling”
— Iain Russell Hseih
“A timeless romance and a bold, inventive novel”
— Ela Lee author of Jaded
“A beautifully written book with a genius concept ”
— Louise Hare
“Who Wants To Live Forever is an utterly convincing — and frighteningly plausible — vision of our very-near future. Hanna Thomas Uose spins vivid, compelling human drama from vast philosophical questions with wit, elegance and verve.”
— Lisa Owens author of Not Working and forthcoming Natural Disaster
“This is a must-read book for 2025, especially for fans of Gabrielle Zevin and Kim Stanley Robinson. ”
— Julianne Pachico

For further information please contact:

EMMA FINNIGAN PR

07870 210468 | emma@emmafinniganpr.co.uk | www.emmafinniganpr.co.uk

One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by the bestselling author whom George RR Martin describes as “an excellent writer.”

One Word Kill
By Mark Lawrence

1 May 2019 | £19.99 HB | £4.99 PB | e-book £3.98 | Audiobook £20.12 | 47North (an imprint of Amazon Publishing)

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In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.

Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange—yet curiously familiar—man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia’s in grave danger, though she doesn’t know it yet. She needs Nick’s help—now.

He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.

Challenge accepted.

‘The ending is absolutely spectacular and wraps everything up perfectly. I loved the setting, the protagonist, the characters including the supporting and very minor players, the thrills and spills and emotions.’ - Fantasy Book Review

‘an enthralling tale about people challenged by dire adversity, and isn’t that at the heart of every great story?’ - The Fantasy Hive

Mark Lawrence is married with four children and lives in Bristol with his family. Before becoming a writer his day job was as a research scientist focused on various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. At one point he was qualified to say 'this isn't rocket science … oh wait, it actually is'.

He is the author of the Broken Empire trilogy (Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns and Emperor of Thorns), the Red Queen’s War trilogy (Prince of Fools, The Liar’s Key and The Wheel of Osheim) and the Book of the Ancestor series (Red Sister, Grey Sister and Holy Sister).

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The One by John Marrs

Finding your perfect match has never been easier.  Or more dangerous…

A page-turning psychological thriller with a difference, this is a truly unique novel which is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. 

Film and TV rights have been optioned by Urban Myth films.

Del Rey / paperback original / 4th May 2017 £7.99. Also available as an e-book.

The One by John Marrs

One simple mouth swab is all it takes.  One tiny DNA test to find your perfect partner – the one you’re genetically made for. 

A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love.  Now, five more people meet their match.  But even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking – and deadlier – than others…

The One shares stories from the perspectives of these five individuals in this unputdownable novel with a most intriguing premise.

  • "A compelling, dark read that gets you thinking." Sun
  • "A fantastic read if you enjoy an unpredictable story with twists and turns." ***** OK!
  • "Looking for a thrilling read? Then look no further." TV Extra Magazine, Sunday Star
  • "A thrilling eBook!" ***** Sunday Express  

John Marrs is a freelance journalist based in London, who has spent the last 20 years interviewing celebrities from the world of television, film and music for national newspapers and magazines. He has written for publications including The Guardian's Guide and Guardian Online; OK! Magazine; Total Film; Empire; Q; GT; The Independent; Star; Reveal; Company and Daily Star.  His debut novel The Wronged Sons, was released in 2013 and in May 2015, he released his second book, Welcome To Wherever You Are. The One was initially self-published as an e-book in July 2016 under the title A Thousand Small Explosions.

#MatchYourDNA @johnmarrs1

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