Coming September 2026
In the city of Carcossa, Syntax is not grammar, it is power.A Word can mend a wound, open a gate, or break a world. And sometimes, it can save a boy.
Elf has spent his life trying not to use the strange, ancient magic etched into his bones. Orc has spent his life trying not to be afraid of the world that keeps hurting him. When an accident on a lonely road throws them together, they build a home, a life and a future beside one another.
But shadows are rising even in this Arcadian world. And when the darkness touches close to home, the two of them must confront what it means to stand together, not just in peace but in peril, and whether love alone can hold the centre.
Larkwing Books is delighted to announce the first novel from John E. R. Thomaides—a re-imagining for adult readers that honours and deepens the world Margaret Moore created.
C.E.O. Jamie Ferrante-Merrin said, “For years, readers have cherished Margaret Moore’s characters. This is the first time we’ve entrusted them to a new story-teller—and John sees them with the same heart she did.”
A Primer of Accidents and Syntax will be published on 17 September 2026, available in hardback, paperback, and on Kindle, exclusively from Amazon.
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