Antonia Hodgson

Hodgson spent nearly twenty years in the publishing business rising to editor-in-chief at Little, Brown before she published her own first novel.

Hodgson's first novel, A Devil in the Marshalsea,^[2] was set in the time of the early Georgians, William Hogarth and the Southwark prison the Marshalsea. Hodgson believes that the Georgian period was more intriguing than the Victorian era which is usually considered to be more culturally important.^[3] The book was submitted anonymously to the publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, because she was known in the publishing industry. Her first book won the Crime Writers' Association's Historical Dagger award and was long listed for a first novel award.^[4] It also was shortlisted in 2015 for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.^[5]

In 2024 it was announced that Hodgson's next novel, The Raven Scholar, would be a fantasy novel and the first in a trilogy called The Eternal Path. It was published in 2025 and is a finalist for the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novel.^[6][7]

• The Devil in the Marshalsea^[2]
• The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins^[8]
• A Death at Fountains Abbey
• The Silver Collar^[9]
• The Raven Scholar (Book 1 of The Eternal Path trilogy)^[6]