Shannon
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Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to The Queen’s Reading Room, a literary festival at Chatsworth House. I was so proud to meet seven wonderful authors, including Samantha Shannon. I also attended her talk Fantasy and Dystopia within Fiction, where she was interviewed by the equally incredible Saara El-Arifi. The setting made it…
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On Saturday 20th September, I had the absolute pleasure of attending The Queen’s Reading Room, a remarkable literary festival hosted within the breath-taking grounds of Chatsworth House and Gardens — famously recognised as the cinematic backdrop of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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by Samantha Shannon “The Priory of the Orange Tree” is a captivating fantasy novel set in an Eastern/Western civilization, weaving together an array of diverse characters: a queen, a dragon rider, and a mage, all in a world rife with political intrigue and threatened by an ancient evil poised to return. Blending politics with high…