Lightborne - A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2024

A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction

About the author

Hesse Phillips (she/they) was raised next-door to a chicken farm in rural Pennsylvania but now lives in Spain. Much of their early life was spent in the theatre, where they developed a love for Shakespeare and the other Elizabethan/Jacobean dramatists which carried over into academics, earning a BA in theatre history at Marlboro College, Vermont, and later a PhD in Drama from Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. While writing their undergraduate thesis on Edward II, they also began working on a novel about Christopher Marlowe which would eventually become Lightborne. Hesse's poetry and prose have appeared in The Bridport Review, the époque press é-zine, Roi Fainéant Press, Emerge Literary Journal, Erato Magazine, and Pangyrus, among others. They are a proud graduate of Grub Street Boston's acclaimed Novel Incubator program.

Summary

A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction

Product details

• Authors: Hesse Phillips
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2025
• EAN: 9781805460398
• ISBN: 978-1-80546-039-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 199 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 305 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, Historical adventure, 1485–1603 (Tudor period), Adventure / action fiction