Author: Tchaikovsky, Adrian

Fantasy

Published on 11 September 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Tor) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 288 pages
162 x 242 x 27 | 480g

Allies will become enemies.

Enemies will become allies.

And the Dark Lord is waiting.

The church of Armes of the Light has long fought the forces of Darkness. And its great prophecy dictates that Dark Lord Darvezian will fall to a band of misfits armed with their wits and the Light’s blessing, and led by a priestess. But to reach the Dark Lord via the ‘spider’s path’, as the prophecy states, they’ll need a spider. They’ll discover that not even the power of sorcery can disguise the grotesque creature’s true and appalling nature, nor its unwillingness to be part of their quest.

As priestess, mage, knight, ranger, and rogue squabble their way through a journey fraught with peril, they question whether the creature called Nth is a monster, a tool or a friend. And ahead lies a mighty confrontation. If they can survive it, it will change all their worlds forever.

Spiderlight is an exhilarating fantasy quest from Adrian Tchaikovsky, the author of Children of Time, Guns of the Dawn and the Shadows of the Apt series.

Praise for Spiderlight‘Tchaikovsky gives us sympathetic characters, real moral dilemmas, and emotional depth, all shot through with a sly humor that kept me grinning throughout’ – Django Wexler, author of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying‘A joy from beginning to end’ – Paul Cornell, author of the Witches of Lychford series‘Spiderlight is a great fantasy read from one of the UK’s growing creators of world-class genre storytelling’ – Starburst Magazine