The most exciting debut of 2025 an incredible fantasy Dark Academia, perfect for fans of Babel, Fourth Wing, and the Scholomance trilogy.

EVERY FIRE STARTS WITH A SINGLE SPARK.

Welcome to Bletchley Park with dragons.

London, 1923. Dragons soar through the skies and protests erupt on the streets, but Vivien Featherswallow isnt worried. Shes going to follow the rules, get an internship studying dragon languages, and make sure her little sister never has to risk growing up Third Class. By midnight, Viv has started a civil war.

With her parents arrested and her sister missing, all the safety Viv has worked for is collapsing around her. So when a lifeline is offered in the form of a mysterious job, she grabs it. Arriving at Bletchley Park, Viv discovers that she has been recruited as a codebreaker helping the war effort if she succeeds, she and her family can all go home again. If she doesnt, theyll all die.

At first, Viv believes that her challenge, of discovering the secrets of a hidden dragon language, is doable. But the more she learns, the more she realizes that the bubble shes grown up in isnt as safe as she thought, and eventually Viv must decide: what war is she really fighting?

An epic, sweeping fantasy with an incredible Dark Academia setting, a clandestine, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, and an unputdownable story filled with twists and turns, betrayals, and secret identities, A Language of Dragons is the unmissable debut of 2025, from an extraordinary new voice.

A Language of Dragons was Childrens #1 bestseller in the TCM chart on 07 January 2025.
S. F. Williamsons book A Language of Dragons was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-01-06.

About the Author

S. F. Williamson is fascinated by the way languages are born and was surrounded by them long before she undertook a degree in French and Italian. She has always known that languages are creatures that live and move and breathe, and as a child she learned that speaking them meant accessing ideas, traditions, and people she would otherwise only know from a distance.

A graduate of Bath Spa University, Steph now lives in France with her husband and two cats.