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Author · Storyteller
Tessa Hayes
@tessahayes
Writer of fantasy with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Tessa Hayes writes across fantasy and urban fantasy, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Tessa Hayes
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Bookshop on St. Jude's Lane
When a failing Portsmouth bookshop begins quietly changing the city around it, its owner discovers that some books are not meant to be sold, only guarded. A local surveyor with a talent for noticing impossible details turns up looking for a missing street that should not exist, and the two of them are drawn into a hidden argument over memory, maps and the price of keeping old magic alive.
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