An Evening With Shannon Chakraborty - French Protestant Church, London

Set sail into the second adventure of Amina al-Sirafi as her quest to track down magical artifacts brings her to the island lair of a sorceress whose woven enchantments are impossible to flee…

Amina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold. Tasked with hunting down magical artifacts for the council of immortal peris, she can savour the occasional adventure on the high seas with her cherished criminal companions while still returning home to raise her beloved daughter.

But when Raksh, the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed, provokes the council’s wrath, Amina is charged with a seemingly

Shannon A. Chakraborty is an award-winning American writer of historical fantasy and speculative fiction.

Chakraborty grew up in New Jersey as a daughter of Catholic parents but converted to Islam in her teens. Her debut novel, The City of Brass, was published in 2017 and opened the opulent, Middle Eastern fantasy trilogy revolving around the magical city of Daevabad. The City of Brass was enthusiastically received by both critics and the reading public and short-listed for several awards, including the World Fantasy Award and John W. Campbell Fantasy Award. The sequel, The Kingdom of Copper, followed two years later, enjoying an equally successful reception. In 2020, the much anticipate The Empire of Gold brought the Daevabad Trilogy to a magnificent conclusion.

Tasha Suri  is a British author and former academic librarian. Tasha’s debut novel Empire of Sand (2018) won the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards[1] and was listed by Time as one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time in 2020.[2] In 2022, her novel The Jasmine Throne won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.[3] Suri's most recent novel, The Isle in the Silver Sea (2025) was listed as one of The New York Times' Best Romance Novels of 2025.[4]

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