L.B. HAZELTHORN
Blue Hazelthorn is an Australian editor, artist, and author of strange fictions, currently living and working in lutruwita/Tasmania.
They won their first prize* in a poetry competition** at the age of eleven, and they’ve been writing*** ever since. Guided by a love of linguistic quirks and gratuitous historical references, their work explores magic, gender, and mythologies both vast and personal.
Alchemy meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling Jazz Age fantasy
As 1920s London swelters in the grip of Egyptomania, archaeology student Rom Godden wishes she was anywhere else. Lectures are dull, spring makes her restless, and the dog she inherited from her grandfather is acting stranger by the day. But when the dog saves her from a monstrous attack, Rom sets out to investigate—and uncovers a deadly family legacy.
*two movie tickets
**for a limerick
***between increasingly baroque forms of procrastination