Annmarie Banks spent twenty years as a buyer and seller of used books. She knows firsthand the excitement of uncovering a treasure among piles of dusty old books. Her first novel, The Hermetica of Elysium, draws upon that feeling of discovery as her protagonist travels through Spain and Italy in the time of the Spanish Inquisition on the hunt for forbidden manuscripts.
She grew up all over the eastern part of the United States because her father was a search-and rescue pilot for the Coast Guard. She moved every four years to a different city along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Because she changed schools and friends often, she was somewhat shy. When one is always the “new kid” , a lot of time is spent sitting on the sidelines at lunch and recess. She used that time to read books from the library, mostly history and natural science. By the time she graduated from college with a degree in English, she felt she wanted to spend her life with books. She promptly got a job in a bookstore and over twenty years worked her way to inventory manager.
As a book buyer, Annmarie had many adventures in attics, basements, storage units, and bookstores, as she pored over hundreds of books, looking for that special first edition or rare volume.
Historical Fiction by Annmarie Banks Featured on this Website
The Elysium Texts Series
The Hermetica of Elysium (Book 1)
The Necromancer’s Grimoire (Book 2)
The Books of the Dead (Book 3)
