Sophie Harrison explores the fantasy books written by Natasha Pulley, former student at the University of Oxford.

British author and Betty Trask Award-winner Natasha Pulley’s stories are far from your typical historical fiction. Having historical and fantasy worlds collide is a regular occurrence in her novels.

This fresh and stylish reimagining of the myth of Dionysus from Pulley (The Mars House) follows Phaidros Heliades, who, trained as a knight in the Theban army from childhood, grows up traveling ...