Freya Marske Freya Marske i(12894429 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Canberra-based author of speculative fiction. Her debut novel, A Marvellous Light (the first in the Last Binding trilogy) was announced as an upcoming Tor publication in April 2020: it was published in November 2021, with two further volumes in 2022 and 2023.

In 2023, it was announced that Marske had signed a further four-book deal with Tor, including three novels and a novella.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 finalist Hugo Award Best Fancast with international nominees Alexandra Rowland and Jennifer Mace, for Be the Serpent.
2020 joint winner Ditmar Awards Best Fan Production in Any Medium for 'Be the Serpent' podcast with American writer Alexandra Rowland and British writer Jennifer Mace.
2020 winner Ditmar Awards Best New Talent

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon A Restless Truth New York (City) : Tor , 2022 25087219 2022 single work novel fantasy

'Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance!

'Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plenty of it when she volunteered to serve as an old lady's companion on an ocean liner, in order to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy that began generations ago.

'What she didn't expect was for the old lady in question to turn up dead on the first day of the voyage. Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham, who's also returning home to England. Violet is everything that Maud has been trained to distrust yet can't help but desire: a magician, an actress, and a magnet for scandal.

'Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of suspects, Maud and Violet must first drop the masks that they've both learned to wear before they can unmask a murderer and somehow get their hands on a magical object worth killing for--without ending up dead in the water themselves.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Novel
y separately published work icon A Marvellous Light New York (City) : Tor , 2021 22507672 2021 single work novel fantasy

'Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known.

'Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it--not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.

'Robin's predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they've been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles--and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 shortlisted Ditmar Awards Best Novel
2022 finalist Locus Awards First Novel
2021 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Novel
y separately published work icon The Last Binding New York (City) : Tor , 2021- 22507630 2021 series - author novel
2024 nominated Hugo Award Best Series
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