Anya Bergman
About the author
Anya Bergman is the bestselling author of The Witches of Vardø, shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023 and a Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of 2023, and The Tarot Reader of Versailles, published in June 2025. She has published twelve novels under her real name Noelle Harrison, as well as the Valentina trilogy under the pen name Evie Blake. Her work has been translated in over fourteen different languages worldwide.
Anya has a doctorate in Creative Writing and is a co-programme leader of Edinburgh Napier University’s Global Online Master’s degree in Genre Fiction.
Anya currently lives in the wilds of County Kerry in Ireland with her ginger rescue cat Orlando.
Also by Anya Bergman
The Witches of Vardø
The Tarot Reader of Versailles
Praise for The Witches of Vardø:
‘Powerful, deeply moving…’ Sunday Times
‘A passionate indictment of the patriarchy … a vibrant exaltation of the resilience of women … Anya Bergman summons a historic witch trial with breathtaking detail and immediacy’
Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
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I want to raise the lost voices of real women from history. I’m aiming to reclaim their agency for contemporary readers by weaving stories that are rich with resonance and authenticity.
Anya Bergman