Alix E. Harrow and Sunyi Dean for The Slantwise Histories

These tales tell a different truth: Slantwise and by starlight.

Join award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow, for an evening celebrating her fantastical collection of stories old and new: The Slantwise Histories. Featuring both Alix’s acclaimed novelette, The Six Deaths of the Saint, and the Hugo-Award winning story that started her career, A Witch’s Guide to Escape, this is a collection - and event - not to be missed!

This evening will be chaired by Sunyi Dean, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters. Her most recent novel, The Girl with a Thousand Faces, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.

‘A feat of the ages. An utter masterpiece … I loved every single page’ – Rachel Gillig, New York Times bestselling author of One Dark Window, on The Everlasting

Stretching from ancient battlefields to the American freeway’s neon-lit attractions, these stories are filled with tricksters, ghosts and ordinary magic. They honour the people caught in the jaws of history; women, workers, soldiers and mothers – everyone who’s been shoved into the margins of the world.

Whether exploring the airless, unchanging dark of an underworld, tracking werewolves through snow-crusted mountain passes or watching a steel mill grind a community into ash, these narratives dive into mysteries that might have been. But these tales aren’t tragedies. They are the triumphant stories of the ones who got away: the dissenters and rule-breakers who ran – and tossed a match behind them as they left.