About

A. K. Larkwood studied English at St John’s College, Cambridge. She has worked in media relations, higher education and law. She lives in Oxford, England, with her wife and a cat. Her debut novel, The Unspoken Name, was published by Tor Books in 2020, and will be followed in 2022 by The Thousand Eyes. She was nominated for the 2020 Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

(Also, my favourite things to write about are:

• loyalty ‘n’ betrayal

• human sacrifice

• immortals behaving badly

• fraught banquets where someone gets murdered

• fantasy archaeology

• people bleeding a single aesthetic drop of blood as they die in the snow

… but in real life my main excitement day-to-day is when I get to cook a new kind of lentil.)