At this point, so many books have been described as “Harry Potter, but for adults” that it’s easy to glaze over when the description comes up again. But Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series, about kids at ...

Naomi Novik began her series of fantasy bildungsromans, in part, because she found Harry Potter extremely irritating. What annoyed her more than anything was the lack of economic thinking that went ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first book takes us into a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death. There are no teachers, ...

Universal has won the film rights for Naomi Novik’s YA novel Scholomance Random House series, putting the first novel A Deadly Education into development with Mandeville Films’ Todd Lieberman and ...