The Sorcerer to the Crown novels are historical fantasies with a postcolonial sensibility about magicians in 1800s London, featuring balls, banter, dragons and fairies. There are two books: Sorcerer to the Crown and The True Queen.

A wonderful and charming book that pays homage to Regency romances and Fantasy novels at the same time that interrogates some of the problematic aspects of those genres in regards to race and gender.

Zacharias Wythe, England’s first African Sorcerer Royal, is contending with attempts to depose him, rumours that he murdered his … Zen Cho was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her short story collection Spirits Abroad was a joint winner of the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award. It was published by Ace Books (US) and Macmillan (UK and Commonwealth) in September 2015, and by Droemer Knaur in Germany in November 2016. The True Queen is a standalone novel set two years after Sorcerer , about a young woman from the Malayan isle of Janda Baik who goes on a quest to break a curse and save her sister — and becomes enmeshed in intrigue in England and Fairyland along the way. She lives in the UK. Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1), The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2), and Untitled (Sorcerer Royal, #3) I am completely, utterly enamoured with Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho’s first novel. The follow-up to Sorcerer to the Crown is in the bag and will be published in March 2019. Zen Cho unpins the edges of the canvas and throws them wide." About Zen Cho: I'm a Malaysian fantasy writer based in the UK. --Naomi Novik, New York Times bestselling author of the Temeraire novels "Absolutely everything about this book is delightful...Witty, wise and wonderful, Sorcerer to the Crown is an admirable achievement and a deep delight." It’s like this book was written for me. She lives in the UK. Sorcerer to the Crown is my first novel, a historical fantasy set in Regency London, featuring magic, romance and lots of hijinks. Cho imagines a world where magic freely flows from Fairyland into our realm, but much like any kind of resource, those with power have found a way to regulate its use and keep it … Zen Cho was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her short story collection Spirits Abroad was a joint winner of the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award. Zen Cho’s The Sorcerer to the Crown combines magic and historical fiction into a truly entertaining and enjoyable experience. I’m a UK-based Malaysian author of fantasy and romance. Her debut novel Sorcerer to the Crown won a British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer and was a Locus Awards finalist for Best First Novel. Her debut novel Sorcerer to the Crown won a British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer and was a Locus Awards finalist for Best First Novel.