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Anna Smith-Spark


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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.
 


Genres: Fantasy, Horror
 
Books containing stories by Anna Smith-Spark
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Fight Like A Girl - Volume 2 (2024)
(Fight Like A Girl, book 2)
edited by
Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall
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Grimdark Magazine Issue #40 (2024)
(Grimdark Magazine, book 40)
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The Other Side of Never (2023)
Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy
edited by
Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan

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Award nominations
2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Court of Broken Knives


Anna Smith-Spark recommends
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The Fireborne Blade (2024)
(Fireborne Blade, book 1)
Charlotte Bond
"Sharp as a brave knight's sword, bright as a silver dragon. I loved it."
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The King-Killing Queen (2023)
(King-Killing Queen, book 1)
Shawn Speakman
"A delicously wry and dark love letter to high fantasy,"
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All Lies Hidden (2023)
Marc Turner
"Loved it...Compelling, starkly beautiful, emotionally raw."

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