An Evening with Eliza Chan and Sunyi Dean - Trafalgar Sq
About this Event
Join us for an evening of ancient myths and legends as we welcome authors Eliza Chan and Sunyi Dean to celebrate their latest books Harbour of Hungry Ghosts and The Girl with a Thousand Faces. Both set in historical Hong Kong, these stories explore hungry spirits, unfamiliar monsters, and the brave young women hunting them. Chaired by Claire North, this evening of dark fantasies, dripping with blends of Chinese and British folklore, is sure to be a hauntingly good night!
Harbour of Hungry Ghosts
The Au family serve the people of Hong Kong: blessing shrines, honouring the dead and dealing with dangerous monster incursions. The expectations on eldest daughter Kiamling are high, which is not something her strict grandmother will let her forget.
When the British disrupt the Hungry Ghosts festival and her grandmother is seized by a strange new monster, Kiamling must step up and lead the search.
With British fables mingling with local Chinese monsters, can Kiamling prove herself, when the old rules no longer seem to apply?The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians.
The past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district.
As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.Eliza Chan is a Scottish-born Chinese-diaspora author who writes about East Asian mythology, British folklore and reclaiming the dragon lady, but preferably all three at once. Eliza's Sunday Times bestselling debut novel Fathomfolk was published by Orbit in February 2024. Her short fiction has been published in The Dark, Podcastle, Fantasy Magazine and The Best of British Fantasy, and her non-fiction has appeared on Tor.com. She lives in the North of England with her partner and young child.
Sunyi Dean is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book Eaters. Originally born in Texas and raised in Hong Kong, she now resides in a Yorkshire cottage full of music and books. Her most recent novel, The Girl with a Thousand Faces, was inspired by her upbringing: her old high school was once a mission house on the edge of the original Walled City of Kowloon, and her grandparents survived the Japanese occupation during World War II.
Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, who wrote several novels in various genres before publishing their first major work as Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It was a critically acclaimed success, receiving rave reviews and becoming a word-of-mouth bestseller. They have since published several hugely popular and critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. They live in London.
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GBP 6.00 to GBP 26.00
