Join two exciting fantasy authors – and they both come from Derby!

Antonia is no stranger to the Festival, having joined us at our first with her debut The Devil in the Marshalsea.  After three successful historical fiction novels, she has now turned to fantasy fiction and The Raven Scholar is the first in The Eternal Path trilogy. It is a masterfully woven and breathtaking epic adult fantasy of cut throat competition and imperial deceit set in the empire of Orrun.

Abbie’s debut is a character-driven fantasy with enemies-to-lovers romance, complex heroines seeking vengeance and of course dragons and has been compared to the novels of Sarah A. Parker and Rebecca Yarros. The dragons are gone, and the kingdoms are falling. Not even the gods can save them now …