Anya Bergman is the internationally bestselling author of THE WITCHES OF VARDØ and THE TAROT READER OF VERSAILLES both published by Manilla Press.

Described as ‘powerful, deeply moving’ THE WITCHES OF VARDØ  was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023 and named a Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of 2023.

THE TAROT READER OF VERSAILLES – ‘[A] propulsive epic in the company of two extraordinary women’ (Daily Mail) was published in hardback in June 2025, and named book of the summer by Ireland AM VMTV. The paperback is published in February 2026.

Anya has also published twelve novels under her real name Noelle Harrison, as well as the VALENTINA trilogy under the pen name Evie Blake, and has been translated in over fourteen different languages worldwide.

She possesses a doctorate in Creative Writing and is Programme Leader of Edinburgh Napier University’s Global Online Master’s in Genre Fiction.

Her next novel MARIAN OF SHERWOOD will be published by Firefinch Publishing in 2027.