Marlon James

Marlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Man Booker winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Book of Night Women, and John Crow’s Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Now, Marlon joins us to discuss Moon Witch, Spider King, the brilliant second novel in his revolutionary DARK STAR TRILOGY.

What’s more, he will be interviewed by the brilliant Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, author of WHEN WE WERE BIRDS, and one of the Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2022. 

In this mighty follow-up to his Number 1 bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch, a deadly regal chancellor, and a mystery with many answers…

Part adventure tale, part chronicle of an indomitable woman – the witch Sogolon – who bows to no man, this is an unforgettable exploration of power, personality, and the places where they overlap, set in a world at once ancient and startlingly modern.

In the words of Neil Gaiman, James has created ‘a fantasy world as well realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s’.