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The Book Room Presents Hannah Kaner

 The Book Room Presents Hannah Kaner Artisan @ the Biscuit Factory, 19th March 2025 Last night's book event with Hannah Kaner was a fun and fascinating discussion about Hannah's new book, Faithbreaker , the third book in Hannah's Fallen Gods trilogy.  Hannah was in conversation with Naomi Kelsey, author of the historical novel The Burnings, and the upcoming The Darkening Globe.  With two north-eastern authors talking in front of a Newcastle audience, we started with a discussion of the numerous Geordie terms that Hannah was able to sneak into her books, terms that apparently had her American editors questioning whether they were actually typos! Apparently a lot of the geography in her series is inspired by the coastline of the North East, from beaches of golden sands to hard, black rock sills, and though none of her characters are actually Geordie, it being a fantasy world and all, those influences crept in in their language. Talk then turned to food, and the range and qu...

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