H.G. Parry

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H. G. Parry, full name Hannah Gabrielle Parry, is a New Zealand author and academic. She earned a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, with a doctoral thesis titled 'The Aeneid with Rabbits: Children's Fantasy as Modern Epic,' which examined Richard Adams's Watership Down; she completed the degree in 2016. Parry works as a writer and lecturer in English literature in Wellington, and her fiction career, spanning from 2014 to the present, focuses on contemporary and historical fantasy. Her five published fantasy novels are The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep (2019), a portal fantasy in which literary characters can be summoned into the real world; A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (2020) and its sequel A Radical Act of Free Magic (2021), an alternate history duology weaving magic into the era of the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution; The Magician's Daughter (2023); and The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door (2024). She has also published short fiction in various genre publications. A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called it 'a witty, riveting historical fantasy,' and was nominated for the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Award, New Zealand's premier award for speculative fiction. Parry has also published academic articles in the Journal of New Zealand Literature and contributed chapters on classical reception and fantasy to scholarly collections.

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• A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (2020) · The Shadow Histories Core Canon
• A Radical Act of Free Magic (2021) · The Shadow Histories Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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