The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the world
of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games,
starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.

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"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the best Hunger
Games movie of them all" USA TODAY


"Everything you would expect from Collins
is here: fraught teenage love; plenty of violence... the themes
of friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression will please and
thrill" The Guardian


"It works beautifully... please don't
make us wait another decade" The Times






pre-order Sunrise On the Reaping - the fifth book
in the Hunger Games series - coming March
2025



 


Ambition will fuel him.
Competition
will drive him.
But power has its price.



It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth
annual Hunger Games.


In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing
for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty
house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the
slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit,
and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.



The odds are against him.


He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female
tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates
are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could
lead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin.


Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the
arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must
weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive
no matter what it takes.





Three books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon, The
Hunger Games original trilogy changed the face of global YA.


All three of the Hunger Games original novels
have been made into major feature films, starring Jennifer Lawrence,
Josh Hutcherson & Liam Hemsworth

The best-selling prequel to The
Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds
and Snakes, was a global number one feature film
in autumn 2023 and a number one New York Times and The
Times bestseller in hardback in May 2020.




 


OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES





The Hunger Games

Catching Fire

Mockingjay

Sunrise On the Reaping - the
fifth book in the Hunger Games series
- coming March 2025 & a film
adaptation is slated for November 2026


The Hunger Games illustrated edition is releasing in
October 2024