An Evening with Katherine Arden - Waterstones Deansgate

We are delighted to welcome fantasy fan-favourite Katherine Arden back to Deansgate, this time celebrating the release of The Unicorn Hunters.

From the bestselling author of The Winternight Trilogy comes a sublime historical fantasy, bringing readers everything they fell in love with in The Bear and the Nightingale: blending fairytale, folklore and a little magic

Arden will be discussing this stunning new work and answering audience questions, followed by a signing.

Doors at 6pm. Ticket with Book option includes a copy of The Unicorn Hunters, to be collected at the event.
About The Unicorn Hunters

Anne of Brittany was a child when her land was invaded, her castle besieged, and her royal father driven to his death.

Now Brittany is occupied by her enemies, her treasury empty, and only one thing is lacking to complete her realm’s subjugation: she is required, on pain of the sword, to marry the King of France.

But Anne cannot. She has promised her dead father that Brittany would never be conquered.Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France’s greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union.Under the guise of a hunting party, Anne takes her court deep into a deep forest, a strange place dogged with rumours of ancient enchantments; a place where diviners cannot see. She tells the French that she had gone there to hunt unicorns.

It’s a ruse, a lie, a feint.

But when, against all expectations, a unicorn does appear and a wounded stranger stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change the destiny of her nation - or be lost in the mist for ever.
About the author

Texas-born KATHERINE ARDEN has always had a taste for wandering. She spent her junior year of high school in Rennes, France. Following her acceptance to Middlebury College in Vermont, she deferred enrolment for a year in order to live and study in Russia. At Middlebury, she specialized in French and Russian literature, and her studies included sojourns at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.

After receiving her BA, she moved to Maui, Hawaii and worked every kind of odd job imaginable, from grant writing and guiding horse tours to serving as a personal tour guide. During this time she wrote what became her debut novel, The Bear and the Nightingale. After a year on the island, she moved to Briançon, France, and spent nine months teaching. She then returned to Maui, where she began writing The Girl in the Tower, the sequel to her debut, and officially launched her career as an author. Currently she lives in Vermont.

She is the author of the Winternight Trilogy and The Warm Hands of Ghosts for adults, and the Small Spaces Quartet for children. The Unicorn Hunters is her ninth novel.

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