Essie Fox worked in publishing and commercial design before she started writing. She has lectured on the history and inspiration behind her novels at the V&A, the National Gallery, and Westminster Library. The Fascination, a Sunday Times bestseller, is a beguiling Victorian gothic novel. The estranged grandson of a wealthy collector of human curiosities becomes fascinated with teenaged twin sisters, leading them into a web of dark obsessions. A dazzlingly dark gothic novel from the bestselling author of The Somnambulist.
Liz Hyder is a writer of adult and children’s fiction, and a creative workshop leader. Bearmouth, her debut novel for young adults, was published by Pushkin Press and won the Branford Boase Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Award for Older Readers. The Illusions is the new novel from the much-lauded author of The Gifts. Inspired by real-life illusionists and early film pioneers, this astonishing story of women and talent, magic and power, sweeps you into a world where anything is possible, and nothing is quite as it seems...
Lizzie Pook is an author and award-winning journalist and travel writer. Her first novel, Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter, set in the pearl industry in northwest Australia, was shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge was published at the beginning of this year. An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her sister.
Tickets are £12 and available via Eventbrite using the link below or in person at the library during opening hours – cash only. Tickets will also be available outside library opening hours, in the library, on a Wednesday morning 10.30 – 12.30 when card payments will also be accepted.

The Magic of Historical Fiction  Lizzie Pook, Liz Hyder, Essie Fox chaired by bookseller Daniel Bassett

16th November 3.30pm until 5.00pm - (90 mins)