Birds of Paradise

American Gods meets The Chronicles of Narnia in this adult fantasy about the Biblical Adam recovering the lost pieces of the Garden of Eden.

Many millennia after the fall of Eden, Adam, the first man in creation, still walks the Earth exhausted by the endless death and destruction, he is a shadow of his former hope and glory. And he is not the only one. The Garden was deconstructed, its pieces scattered across the world and its inhabitants condemned to live out immortal lives, hiding in plain sight from generations of mankind.

But now pieces of the Garden are turning up on the Earth. After centuries of loneliness, Adam, haunted by the golden time at the beginning of Creation, is determined to save the pieces of his long lost home. With the help of Eden's undying exiles, he must stop Eden becoming the plaything of mankind.

Adam journeys across America and the British Isles with Magpie, Owl, and other animals, gathering the scattered pieces of Paradise. As the country floods once more, Adam must risk it all to rescue his friends and his home because rebuilding the Garden might be the key to rebuilding his life.


Fresh, fast-paced and wholly immersive. Love it! - Joanne Harris

Astonishing. Riveting. Powerful mythic fiction. Ellen Kushner, author of Swordspoint

Birds of Paradise sits in a place between Plato and John Wick, a place which frankly I didn't know existed. And it is profoundly human too: whoever has ever known loss will resonate with it. Francesco Dimitri, author of The Book of Hidden Things

A beautifully written novel. R. J. Barker, author of Age of Assassins

Told with style and subtlety. A beautiful, thoughtful read. – Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty and The Loosening Skin

A swooping, poetic novel that meditates on ecology and human's responsibility to our home – Tor.com

Meditative and elegant ... combines a high-flying adventure plot with the pacing and poetic flourishes of magical realism. ... Readers of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville will enjoy this lyrical, ecologically minded adventure. - Publishers Weekly