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Anna Smith-Spark
Anna Smith-Spark lives in London, UK. She loves grim dark and epic fantasy and historical military fiction. Anna has a BA in Classics, an MA in history and a PhD in English Literature. She has previously been published in the Fortean Times and the poetry website www.greatworks.org. Previous jobs include petty bureaucrat, English teacher and fetish model.
Anna's favourite authors and key influences are R. Scott Bakker, Steve Erikson, M. John Harrison, Ursula Le Guin, Mary Stewart and Mary Renault. She spent several years as an obsessive D&D player.
You may know her by the heels of her shoes.
Anna's favourite authors and key influences are R. Scott Bakker, Steve Erikson, M. John Harrison, Ursula Le Guin, Mary Stewart and Mary Renault. She spent several years as an obsessive D&D player.
You may know her by the heels of her shoes.
Genres: Fantasy
New Books
Series
Empires of Dust
1. The Court of Broken Knives (2017)
2. The Tower of Living and Dying (2018)
3. The House of Sacrifice (2019)
1. The Court of Broken Knives (2017)
2. The Tower of Living and Dying (2018)
3. The House of Sacrifice (2019)
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Anna Smith-Spark recommends
The King-Killing Queen (2023)
(King-Killing Queen, book 1)
Shawn Speakman
"A delicously wry and dark love letter to high fantasy,"
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (2022)
(Gael Song, book 1)
Shauna Lawless
"Gripping and beautiful. A Celtic Last Kingdom with wild magic and fierce heroines."
Pennyblade (2022)
J L Worrad
"The changeling offspring of Jorg Ancrath and Phedre no Delaunay. Filthy, furious, wonderful."
The Maleficent Seven (2021)
Cameron Johnston
"Visceral and gripping fantasy, horribly and hugely enjoyable."
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