Dryad Book Box — One-Off Box: March
Meticulously curated boxes for fantasy fiction fans, delivered straight to your door. 
 
Our March Theme is:
A Deadly Quest 
 
Our book of the month is the darkly comedic quest fantasy, Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher. We're delighted to be working with Titan Books to bring you an exclusive edition, featuring signed endpapers and exclusive sprayed edges.
 
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar are sent on a suicide mission to uncover the secret behind an unstoppable mechanical army. Perfect for lovers of comedic epic fantasy, found family and Dungeons & Dragons.
 
This box will include...
A Dryad Books exclusive edition of Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher. 
An exclusive letter from the author.
A bag of speciality, ethically-sourced ground coffee
 
Our boxes are packed with care in-house. Books are gift-wrapped, and our packaging is sustainably sourced and plastic-free. Boxes are £22 + P&P, and are sent via Royal Mail Tracked 48 or via International Tracked.
 
Please note that this is a single box, not a monthly subscription.
 
Boxes ship on the final week of every month. Our March box is due to begin shipping on March 24th.
 
Due to the recent changes in EU shipping regulations, we are sadly unable to ship to the EU, including NI. 
 
More about Clockwork Boys…
 
In the first book of this touching and darkly comic duology, a paladin, a forger, an assassin and a scholar ride out of town on an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes.
 
When forger Slate is convicted of treason, she faces a death sentence. But her unique gift for sniffing out magic (literally) earns her a reprieve—of sorts.
 
Along with a formerly demon-possessed paladin named Caliban, her murderous ex-lover, and an irritating sexist scholar, Slate sets off on a mission to learn about the Clockwork Boys, deadly mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom who have been terrorising their lands. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but they must survive a long journey through enemy territory to reach Anuket City. And Slate has her own reasons to dread returning to her former home.
 
Slate and her crew aren’t the first to be sent on this mission. None of their predecessors have returned, and Slate can’t help but feel they’ve exchanged one death sentence for another. Her increasing closeness to Caliban isn’t helping matters: for the first time in a long while, Slate might actually care about surviving.
 
'Hands down, probably the best piece of traditionally western epic fantasy I've read ever,' --Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
 
'As stories give us maps to unknown possibility, Clockwork Boys shows us how to do that nearly impossible thing-how to go on after we have screwed absolutely everything up. A must-read for anyone trying to be a decent human being and/or competent adult!' --Sigrid Ellis, author of Queers Dig Time Lords