Heather Palmer Audiobooks

Heather Palmer is a Scottish writer based in Fife, working at the vivid meeting point of fantasy and romance that readers now call romantasy. Their storytelling draws deeply on landscape, folklore and a fascination with the long-dead and the undying, lending even their most fantastical worlds a windswept, distinctly Scottish atmosphere. It is fiction shaped as much by wild coastline as by imagination.

Palmer first made their mark in comics, and in 2019 became the very first writer to win a Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award for a comics script, a notable milestone in a career that also includes the sapphic supernatural graphic novel Smithers and Wing. That grounding in visual storytelling shows in prose that is atmospheric, propulsive and richly peopled.

With The Eynhallow Saga, produced as an Audible Original, Palmer has moved into epic sapphic fantasy, spinning a tale of magic, loyalty and revolution that has quickly found an enthusiastic audience among queer fantasy readers.

The Eynhallow Saga arrives as a full-cast Audible Original narrated by the Scottish actor Freya Mavor, whose performance gives the kingdom of Eynhallow real presence. Begin with Deathbound, the first instalment, which earns a perfect 5 from listeners in our catalogue and introduces Princess Ythsie and Stroma, the fierce village fighter who becomes her bodyguard amid a rising tide of palace intrigue.

The saga then continues in Bloodbound, deepening the magic, danger and court politics as loyalties are tested and old powers stir. Taken in order, the two parts form a gripping, immersive whole.

If you are drawn to sapphic fantasy with heart, momentum and a strong sense of place, this is a series to sink into and savour. Find both instalments below.