HANNAH KANER is a Northumbrian writer living in Scotland. She works as a senior digital consultant in Edinburgh, delivering digital healthcare, tools, and services for the public sector. She has a first class degree in English from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a Masters of Science with distinction from the University of Edinburgh. She is inspired by world mythologies, angry women,speculative fiction, and the stories we tell ourselves about being human.
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">THE INSTANT NO. 1 <em>SUNDAY TIMES </em>BESTSELLER</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">‘A wonderful, gritty, explosively violent, and beautifully realised debut’</span><br><em>DAILY MAIL</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">‘GODKILLER will have you in its grasp from the first pages’</span><br><em>Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-weight: bolder;">You are not welcome here, godkiller</span></em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favour.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">Pursued by demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning – something is rotting at the heart of their world, and only they can be the ones to stop it.</p>