Between Two Fires with Christopher Buehlman in conversation with Joe Abercrombie
Mon 23 Mar 2026
7:00pm at St Swithin's Church, The Paragon, Bath BA1 5LY
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Christopher Buehlman joins us for the highly anticipated UK release of his novel, Between Two Fires.
Already a huge TikTok sensation, this epic historical horror novel set in Medieval France follows a disgraced knight and a young orphan of the Black Death, who journey together across a plague-ridden landscape to confront evil in a macabre battle of angels and demons.
Christopher will be in conversation with Lord Grimdark himself, Joe Abercrombie, bestselling British fantasy author of many novels beloved here at Mr B’s, but most recently, The Devils.
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About the book:
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm-that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.
Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfil her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.
As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.
“An extraordinary horror novel. Breathlessly paced and fiercely cinematic, it’s just a classic.” – Joe Hill
“The Road meets Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in this frightful medieval epic.”- Kirkus
“A harrowing, haunting, heartfelt journey into darkness.” – Joe Abercrombie
About the authors:
Christopher Buehlman is a native Floridian and author of the literary horror novels Those Across the River and Between Two Fires., and fantasy novels including The Blacktongue Thief, a Mr B’s team fave. He is the winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in poetry, and the author of several provocative plays, including Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka. Many know him as comedian Christophe the Insultor, something of a cult figure on the renaissance festival circuit. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. His first novel, ‘Those Across the River,’ was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2012.
Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, studied psychology at Manchester University, and worked as an editor of documentaries and live music before his first book, The Blade Itself, was published in 2006. Two further instalments of the First Law trilogy, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings, followed, along with three standalone books set in the same world: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country. He has also written the Shattered Sea trilogy for young adults, the Age of Madness trilogy for old adults, and Sharp Ends, a collection of short stories. His most recent novel, The Devils, was a Mr B’s team fave in 2025.