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.

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 ...

Zen Cho’s Sorcerer Royal series is a dynamic fantasy world set in regency-era London full of political machinations, English sensibilities, and dragons! To set the stage: mysterious circumstances have ...

Jessamyn Teoh is at a crossroads: When we meet her, the central character in Zen Cho's new Black Water Sister, she's newly graduated, unemployed, and bound by a need to support her parents, who moved ...

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 ...

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 ...