Jessica Rydill

Jessica Rydill is a British fantasy author from Bath. Born in 1959, she studied English at King's College, Cambridge before qualifying as a solicitor. She travelled a lot in her twenties. Orbit Books published her first novel, Children of the Shaman, in 2001, and Locus magazine short-listed it for best first novel. Sequel The Glass Mountain appeared in October 2002.

Since 2017, small press Grimbold Books has reissued both books, with sequels Malarat and Winterbloom.

Jessica’s latest book, The Girl from the Sea, came out in 2019, and Tunguska is in preparation.

Jessica lives near Bath with her husband and her crew of Ball-jointed dolls or BJD, which aren’t creepy. Though they can be badly behaved...

Visit Jessica’s web-site at www.shamansland.com to learn about the shamanworld.