Spotted Lily
British Fantasy Society: Best Novel nominee (2006).
Angela Pendergast, escapee from the Australian bush, grew up with the smell of hot mutton fat in her hair, the thought of her teeth crunching a cold Tim Tam chocolate biscuit – the height of decadent frivolity. Now, though her tastes have grown and she knows absolutely what she wants, her life is embarrassingly stuck. So when the Devil drops into her bedroom in her sharehouse in inner-city Sydney with a contract in hand, she signs. He's got only a Hell's week to fulfil his side, but in the meantime he must chaperone her – or is it the other way around?
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Anna Tambour
Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.
In 2009, her story "The Age of Fish, Post-flowers" was in the anthology Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press) that won the Anthology World Fantasy Award. Also in 2009, her story "Gladiolus Exposed" was in the anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey), which was one of four anthologies shortlisted for the same award.
Tambour's collection Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & was published in 2003, Spotted Lily, a novel, in 2005, and Crandolin, a novel, in 2012.
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