The Beheading Game

Magic, romance, revenge, and an utterly irresistible heroine - this book is an instant classic

Lev Grossman, author of BRIGHT SWORD

Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn. I loved it.

Kelly Link, author of THE BOOK OF LOVE

An original, audacious twist on a tale we all think we know. A must-read for lovers of history, magic and revenge

Erin Kelly, the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE POISON TREE

'In The Beheading Game, Rebecca Lehmann’s fierce and audacious imagination soars, bringing us Anne Boleyn as we have never dared to see or imagine her before. Sister, mother, wife, avenger: In Lehmann’s brilliant hands, ferocious, feminist Anne turns from hunted to hunter, from disdained to loved, a transformation that is pure poetry. Anne’s search for justice could awaken the dead and will awaken every reader from the very first page. If you have ever wanted better for Anne Boleyn, this unlikely love story is for you.

V. V. Ganeshananthan, author of the Women's Prize-winning BROTHERLESS NIGHT

Brilliantly imagined, stylishly written, satisfyingly plotted, full of delicious surprises: all in all, hella fun.

Kirkus

Lyrical and audacious, The Beheading Game, pulls no punches in re-imagining this well-known story. In turns vulnerable, furious, triumphant and moving, I never wanted to let go of the deeply human Anne that Lehmann conjures

Kat Dunn, author of HUNGERSTONE

Anne Boleyn is dead; long live Anne Boleyn. In Lehmann’s playful revisionist history, Henry VIII’s second wife wakes up in a box after her execution, sews her head back on with a needle and thread and gets down to the business of assuring her daughter Elizabeth’s ascendance to the throne (or, if you want to put a finer point on it, revenge)

New York Times

Rage-fuelled and love-filled: a vengeful, sapphic romp through Tudor England in the company of a resurrected Anne Boleyn to die for. Wildly imaginative and full of heart

Holly Race, author of SIX WILD CROWNS

A cracker of a novel – subtle, satisfying and irresistibly inventive

Mail on Sunday

[The Beheading Game] won me over with its inventiveness, its exuberance and a portrayal of Anne and Henry’s marriage that is more nuanced than many a conventional telling

The Times