About the event

Ancient powers battle it out in the novels of these two authors. Virginia Crow awakes an ancient Scottish evil for her novel Caledon, set in the wake of the battle of Culloden. In fin-de-siècle France, author Olga Wojtas pits her heroine against evil with a bite in Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace.

Chaired by Ann Landmann

About the speakers

Virginia Crow grew up in Orkney, using the breath-taking scenery to fuel her imagination and the writing fire within her. Her favourite genres to write are fantasy and historical fiction, sometimes mixing the two together such as her newly-published book Caledon. She enjoys swashbuckling stories such as The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and is still waiting for a screen adaption that lives up to the book!

Olga Wojtas is an unconventional – and very witty – writer of postmodern crime fiction whose surrealist humour has been compared to the likes of PG Wodehouse, Jasper Fforde and the Marx Brothers. Her debut novel, Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, has been published in the UK and US to great critical acclaim – being longlisted for the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize 2019, shortlisted for a CrimeFest Award, and named as one of the best mysteries and thrillers of the year by Kirkus.

Find out more about Virginia Crow and Olga Wojtas!