Set in the excruciatingly class-conscious realm of an alternate 19th-century England, Cho’s delightful debut novel skillfully blends fantasy and intrigue with issues of race and gender politics.

There are several ways in which Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown invites comparison with Susanna Clarke's best-selling, BBC-adapted Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: It features squabbling English ...

Midway through London writer Zen Cho’s light-spirited debut novel “Sorcerer to the Crown,” the wheels of the hero’s stylish carriage turn into pumpkins. The book’s prologue tells how a little boy ...

Poor Muna's arrival in England is less than auspicious. She and her sister Sakti are refugees from Janda Baik, sent away by their mentor Mak Genggang to seek the mystery of their past (and avoid an ...

Cho returns to the alternate 19th-century England of Sorcerer to the Crown with a standalone tale full of delightful characters and devious plots. Sisters Sakti and Muna wake on the island of Janda ...

Zen Cho’s new debut novel Sorcerer to the Crown is getting all kinds of buzz (and we’re dying to read it.) But it’s not her first novel. She wrote two others, which she “binned” before even trying to ...

Malaysian author Zen Cho delivered the 2025 Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at the Pichette Auditorium in Pembroke College, Oxford, England on May 19, joining the likes of fellow esteemed ...

Our columnist reviews books by Danica Nava, Courtney Milan, Zen Cho and Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters. Credit...Michela Buttignol Supported by By Olivia Waite Romance loves to build triumphant outcomes ...

What would you do if your so-called “bad luck charm”, who always happens to be present whenever something embarrassing happens to you, suddenly becomes your office mate? That’s what London-based ...

Zen Cho's followup to her Regency fantasy of manners Sorceror to the Crown builds solidly on the world she's invented, mixing historical froth... Poor Muna's arrival in England is less than auspicious ...