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Anthony Hodge
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Fiction author with a queue of ideas. South African living in Spain

Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land is now available to order:
Bookshop .org: http://bit.ly/4nX2jma

Amazon:
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Thank you for a fantastic, thoughtful review! book-shelfie.com/review/exile... #exile #booksky #epicfantasy #fiction
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Attend! Big discounts still going until Friday for Kindle versions of Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land on Amazon UK (amzn.eu/d/iImxLF8) and US (a.co/d/9dcCiap). Grab it while you can! 📚💙 #highfantasy #epicfantasy #novel #fiction #book
Book cover with Kindle reader
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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But seriously, read this post: www.writerswrite.co.za/you-dont-hav...
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Can anyone recommend a nice, chunky graphic novel in English to lose myself in? Doesn't need to be any particular genre, just an interesting story with beautiful illustrations? Ideally, a standalone book or in a small number of volumes. #booksky #reading #suggestion #comicbook
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Final round of editing on Exile Part II is well underway #novel #booksky 🪐📚 #epicfantasy #highfantasy #fiction #writing #editing
Chapter titled 'Caeria — Spring's Reign — 436' and first sentence 'There were days when Razna wanted nothing more than to scream.'
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The Golden Ass by Apuleius is one of the great ancient Greco-Roman novels. Apart from being quite funny, it gives lots of little insights into how ordinary people lived in those days, compared to the more epic tales from that era en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol... #booksky #inspiration #recommendation
The Golden Ass - Wikipedia
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November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Mapmaking #exile #part2 #fantasy #epicfantasy #highfantasy #novel #book #fiction
Inked drawing of a fantasy map
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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The original preface to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 207 years later, and these arguments for the power and purpose of speculative fiction to explore deep human truths without needing to conform to literal realism still hold true. #booksky 🪐📚 #literature #classic
"The event on which the interest of the story depends is exempt from the disadvantages of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment. It was recommended by the novelty of the situations which it develops, and, however impossible as a physical fact, affords a point of view to the imagination for the delineating of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield." "The opinions which naturally spring from the character and situation of the hero are by no means to be conceived as existing always in my own conviction; nor is any inference justly to be drawn from the following pages as prejudicing any philosophical doctrine of whatever kind."
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"The wind keened through hollowed halls, vacant courtyards, gaping windows. Their footsteps rang too loudly against the stone." ~ Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land #booksky 🪐📚 #epicfantasy #highfantasy #novel #fiction
His footsteps echoed flatly against the walls as he went down a long alleyway between two temples...
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature
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Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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'After months in the stinking, crowded city, it was a joy to breathe fresh air. And to hunt.' ~ Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land #booksky 🪐📚 #epicfantasy #highfantasy #novel #fiction
The slopes were dotted with holm oaks, laurel trees, scrub bushes, and yellowed grass beneath. Streams wound through the thicketed gullies between the hills. Small shoots of green grass and clover peeped out of the ground here and there, thanks to the first rains. But apart from some thin streaks of cloud in the sky and a crispness in the fragrant morning air, there was little else to suggest autumn.
October 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Finally sinking my teeth into this classic, after many years of meaning to get around to it. So far so good! #booksky #dracula #horror #fiction #reading
Paperback edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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A sample of the back cover and blurb for Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land. Coming soon! 📚💙 #highfantasy #epicfantasy #novel #fiction #book
In the land of Caeria, Terzjin is a bodyguard with a talent for staying out of sight, and haunted by memories he would rather forget. Valcero is an orphaned slave, now banished from the only family and home he has ever known. Meanwhile, trouble looms across the sea as Heirik, a young nobleman with a thirst for power meets Razna, a shepherd’s daughter with limitless ambition. When an invasion upends their lives, Terzjin and Valcero must escape with their people to the ends of the known world. They will have to venture into places forbidden and forgotten, uncover ancient secrets, survive grave peril, and find a way home.
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Lucian of Samostrata's A True Story. A very old tale I enjoyed reading a while back. This video gives a nice overview of what makes it special: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBpD... #booksky #novel #ancient #fiction
The Absurd 2nd Century Space Opera You'll Never Read
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October 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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After starting this writing journey five years ago, it feels pretty incredible to hold some tangible record of it in my hands. Some tweaks to make and it will be good to go! #exile #novel #fiction #booksky #highfantasy #epicfantasy
Front cover of author proof copy of Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land, by Anthony Hodge. The cover features a stylised image of an ancient sailing ship on the waves. Back cover and spine of author proof copy of Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land, by Anthony Hodge. The back cover features a stylised image of four fish, as well as a stylised wave pattern
October 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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'Here and there, he spied rows of rectangular holes. Windows? And at the top, a palace crowned the Great Rock. How did they build up there? It had to be magic.' Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land #exile #novel #booksky #fiction #epicfantasy #highfantasy #fantasy
Doors, pillars, and sculpted façades covered the lower levels of the rock, but further up, the stone was pitted and cracked — carved not by people but by the elements. The rock had many ribbons of red, orange, and pink, layers that whorled and undulated around the mass.
October 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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‘As far as they know, this is a road to the underworld. Only the dead — or the mad — would come this way. The soldiers will not follow. They never do.’ — Exile Part I: From an Antique Land

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They stumbled out of the thicket and into the ravine, without stopping. The muddy ground turned dusty. The sunshine faded to gloom. Their breath and running footsteps bounced between the rock walls.
September 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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We have a cover!
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Book cover for novel titled Exile, subtitled Part 1 — From an Antique Land. The author is Anthony Hodge. Includes a stylised illustration of an ancient sailing ship on the sea
September 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM