Exploring their novels, The Ghosts of Heaven (Sedgwick), The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (North) and Bête (Roberts), we will embark on a journey to understand human longing, the quest to explore the unknown and our tumultuous relationship with the world around us.
The venue is Waterstones Piccadilly, 203-205 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD (map)
The talk takes place on Wednesday 19th November, 6.30pm
Tickets are just £5/£3 PABC members and Waterstones Cardholders available in store, by phone via 020 7851 2400 or you can email Piccadilly@waterstones.com
MARCUS SEDGWICK was born and raised in East Kent in the South-east of England. He now divides his time between a small village near Cambridge and a remote house in the French Alps. He is the winner of many prizes, including the Printz Award, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Blue Peter Book Award. His books have been shortlisted for over thirty other awards, including the CILIP Carnegie Medal (five times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (five times, including a current longlisting for SHE IS NOT INVISIBLE in 2014). In 2011 REVOLVER was awarded a Printz Honor title and MIDWINTERBLOOD the Michael L Printz Award in 2014.
Marcus was Writer in Residence at Bath Spa University for three years, and has taught creative writing at Arvon and Ty Newydd. He is currently working on film and book projects with his brother, Julian, as well as a graphic novel with Thomas Taylor. He has judged numerous books awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Costa Book Awards.
His latest title in the UK is THE GHOSTS OF HEAVEN (October 14)
CATHERINE WEBB is a Carnegie Medal-nominated British author who writes under the pseudonyms of CLAIRE NORTH and KATE GRIFFIN.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is the first novel Webb has penned under the pseudonym Claire North. Webb has already written a second novel to be published under the Claire North name entitled Touch – due for release in February 2015.
A lifelong Londoner, Webb describes herself as a fan of big cities, urban magic, Thai food and graffiti-spotting, and she is endlessly fascinated by such questions as who leaves copies of the yellow pages on top of bus shelters, how the hidden tunnels beneath the sorting office were built, and why anyone would ever dispose of perfectly good pairs of shoes by throwing them over the nearest telephone line.
Catherine read History at the London School of Economics, and studied at RADA. In addition to penning novels, Catherine also currently works as a theatre lighting designer.
ADAM ROBERTS is the author of more than a dozen SF novels, noted for their variety and the brilliance of their prose. He has been shortlisted for many awards and his novel Jack Glass won both the BSFA and the John W. Campbell awards for Best Novel. He is also a Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature at Royal Holloway College, London. He lives to the West of London with his wife and two children.
His most recent novels published in 2014 are Bête and Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea.