The Osiris Project

Cataveiro

A high concept, futuristic dystopian thriller for the 21st Century.

Swift has produced another beautifully-written novel.

Cataveiro has a soulful, lonely quality as Taeo and Ramona embark on their missions, haunted by memories of the past and visions of what lies ahead … an intriguing world to get lost in.

A fantastic blend of worldbuilding, excellent storytelling and complex characters.

Swift’s first novel, with its brilliant near-future vision of an ecologically and socially devastated world and characters who resonate with life and passion, marks her as an author to watch.

A glittering first novel: a kind of flooded Gormenghast treated with the alienated polish of DeLillo's Cosmopolis. The result is a gripping novel, readable, beautiful, politically engaged and wholly accomplished. Swift is a ridiculously talented writer.

E. J. Swift is the author of Osiris, the first novel in The Osiris Project trilogy. Her short fiction has appeared in Interzone magazine, and in anthologies Pandemonium: The Lowest Heaven, and The Best British Fantasy 2013. When not writing, she is kept busy as a slave to cats and an aficionado of the trapeze

A shipwreck. And one lone survivor. 
 
For political exile Taeo Ybanez, this could be his ticket home. Relations between the Antarcticans and the Patagonians are worse than ever, and to be caught on the wrong side could prove deadly. 
 
For pilot and cartographer Ramona Callejas, the presence of the mysterious stranger is one more thing in the way of her saving her mother from a deadly disease. 
 
All roads lead to Cataveiro, the city of fate and fortune, where their destinies will become intertwined and their futures cemented for ever...

Osiris

An intense, politically engaged dystopian thriller.

an assured and accomplished debut novel ... an absolute gem

Dystopia is back ... it's the characters, and what their lives show us of the fascinating, stratified world of Osiris, that are the heart of this promising debut novel

E.J. Swift is a fantastic new British writer and novelist, living in London and represented by the Zeno Agency.

Nobody leaves Osiris. 
 
Adelaide Rechnov 
Wealthy socialite and granddaughter of the Architect, she spends her time in pointless luxury, rebelling against her family in a series of jaded social extravagances and scandals until her twin brother disappears in mysterious circumstances. 
 
Vikram Bai 
He lives in the Western Quarter, home to the poor descendants of storm refugees and effectively quarantined from the wealthy elite. His people live with cold and starvation, but the coming brutal winter promises civil unrest, and a return to the riots of previous years. 
 
As tensions rise in the city, can Adelaide and Vikram bridge the divide at the heart of Osiris before conspiracies bring them to the edge of disaster?

E. J. Swift

I loved Osiris and Cataveiro and this final volume did not disappoint ... Swift's post-apocalyptic world reveals itself in new and unexpected ways

It was a brilliant setting with wonderful characters and I’d really like to go back to Osiris one day to see how they’re all doing ... a really immersive series

Fleeing from her family and the elitist oppression of the Osiris government, Adelaide Rechnov has become the thing she once feared, a revolutionary. 
 
But with the discovery of a radio signal comes the stark realization that there is life outside their small island existence. Adelaide’s worries are about to become much bigger. 
 
Meanwhile, as rumour spreads on the mainland, many head to the lost city of Osiris with their own devious objectives. But in a world where war is king and only the most powerful survive, there can only be one victor… 
 
The thrilling, epic finale to The Osiris Project

E. J. Swift

Praise for Tamaruq

I loved Osiris and Cataveiro and this final volume did not disappoint ... Swift's post-apocalyptic world reveals itself in new and unexpected ways

It was a brilliant setting with wonderful characters and I’d really like to go back to Osiris one day to see how they’re all doing ... a really immersive series

Swift has produced another beautifully-written novel.

I loved Osiris and Cataveiro and this final volume did not disappoint ... Swift's post-apocalyptic world reveals itself in new and unexpected ways

It was a brilliant setting with wonderful characters and I’d really like to go back to Osiris one day to see how they’re all doing ... a really immersive series

Swift has produced another beautifully-written novel.

I loved Osiris and Cataveiro and this final volume did not disappoint ... Swift's post-apocalyptic world reveals itself in new and unexpected ways

It was a brilliant setting with wonderful characters and I’d really like to go back to Osiris one day to see how they’re all doing ... a really immersive series

Swift has produced another beautifully-written novel.

Books by E. J. Swift

Series by E. J. Swift

The Osiris Project

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