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Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book, a Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy novel published in 2022, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award. The Valkyrie, published in 2023, is a retelling of Norse and Germanic legends. The Tapestry of Time, published in 2024, is about four clairvoyant sisters fighting the Nazis for control of the Bayeux Tapestry in 1944. Her Alice Payne time travel novellas were published in 2018 and 2019. Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) was re-published in a revised edition in 2023 as The Chatelaine. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician's Workshop, published by Choice of Games. She has published two Assassin's Creed tie-in nov ...more

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	The Embroidered Book 3.65 avg rating — 2,929 ratings — published 2022 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Valkyrie 3.43 avg rating — 1,324 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alice Payne Arrives (Alice Payne, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chatelaine 3.67 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tapestry of Time 3.66 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alice Payne Rides (Alice Payne, #2) 3.66 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magus Conspiracy (Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perfect Cup of Tea by Kate Heartfield (Goodreads Author), Helen Laser (Narrator) 3.39 avg rating — 80 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Resurrection Plot (Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Course of True Love (Monstrous Little Voices, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Over the last decade, depending what projects were in drafts or edits in a given year, I’ve bounced from century to century, often overlapping (in the last year, for example, I’ve worked in the 19th century for Assassin’s Creed, in the 5th century for The Valkyrie, and the 20th century for the forthcoming novel, plus a bit of short fiction in the 16th century, plus some research in other periods f

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Kate Heartfield added a status update: Hi everyone! We're getting ready to launch Mercutio in May in the UK, which means lots of exciting stuff like choosing the audiobook narrator and final checks. And it's now available to request on Netgalley UK (just search Mercutio). The UK edition will be the first one in print, but readers everywhere can get the ebook and audiobook versions on May 7 as well.
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Kate Heartfield added a status update: Hi everyone! We're getting ready to launch Mercutio in May in the UK, which means lots of exciting stuff like choosing the audiobook narrator and final checks. And it's now available to request on Netgalley UK (just search Mercutio).
The UK edition will be the first one in print, but readers everywhere can get the ebook and audiobook versions on May 7 as well.

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“The world is on fire, and they argue about the temperature of the flames.”
― Kate Heartfield, The Embroidered Book

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“Claude wanted to say: I will be a man still; I will be a man-at-arms again.”
― Kate Heartfield, Armed in Her Fashion

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“Claude’s smiled dropped. “A very long time. Since I was a child. I have never—never been a woman.”
― Kate Heartfield, Armed in Her Fashion

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3rd Quarter 2023 - Fantasy #1

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

4 votes, 30.8%

The Foxglove King by Hannah F. Whitten

3 votes, 23.1%

The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield

2 votes, 15.4%

Redemption's Blade by Adrian Tchaikovsky

2 votes, 15.4%

The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao

1 vote, 7.7%

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

1 vote, 7.7%

The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker

0 votes, 0.0%

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

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The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport

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