Book launch: Vile Lady Villains

Join us for the paperback launch of Danai Christopoulou's book Vile Lady Villains. Danai will be visiting from Sweden and will be in conversation with Carrie Russpatrick for the evening.

When: October 18th, 16:30 - 17:30

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

The event is free but please reserve your spot. 

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THE WORLD MISTAKES YOU BOTH FOR VILLAINS

You are Lady Macbeth. You have plotted your king’s death and now you need to flee.

You turn to the Three Witches for help, but their spell casts you out into an unrecognisable new realm.

You fall through a door only to stumble upon another woman’s blood-soaked triumph: you meet Klytemnestra as she stands over her husband’s corpse.

But as this Queen of Mycenae mistakes you for a spirit, she chases you through another mysterious door into the world of stories.

Hunted by wraiths in an unfamiliar land determined to destroy you both, you are forced into alliance.

Castles crumble. Myths collide. In the chaos, your dark rivalry gives way to a fiery attraction no one could have predicted.

To survive, you must choose: return to the tragedies that define you, or burn those stories’ pages and rewrite your ending, together . . .

For fans of A Dowry of Blood, Clytemnestra, and Piranesi, Vile Lady Villains is an unforgettable ride into the realm of stories

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Danai Christopoulou is a Greek author raised on a diet of myths and tragedies. Danai’s writing has appeared in Glamour, Marie Claire, khoréo, Fusion Fragment, Flame Tree Press, Writer's Digest and more, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for a Best of Small Fictions, and featured on the Nebula and Stoker recommended reading lists. Vile Lady Villains is Danai's debut novel. Growing up amid the ancient ruins of Athens, Greece, Danai currently haunts a forest in Sweden.

Carrie Russpatrick is an independent researcher in Media, Gender and Culture. Current projects include mapping the differences in film ratings for queer films across countries and media representations of the trauma of infertility. She has also studied the theoretical crossings of aesthetics and queer embodiment in the cinematic trope known as the "vulva monster". She is an active member of the Monster Network which fosters international collaborations among those with interest in monsters and the monstrous and is a founding member of the Norwegian Queer Research Group  In her spare time, she is a lover of zines, fossils, poodles, and all things cult classic."