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Destiny Calls with Victoria Aveyard and Kesia Lupo

This event starts with a Brave New Words reading from C.C. Peñaranda

Will the protagonists in Victoria Aveyard’s Realm Breaker and Kesia Lupo’s We are Bound By Stars accept the card they have been dealt or will they change their fortunes?

The first tale has Corayne starting a desperate journey to complete the impossible task of saving the world from destruction after a surprising encounter and the latter sees Livio and Beatrice attempting to stop a deadly revolution in a thrilling, plot-driven adventure. All carry the fate of their worlds on their shoulders…


About the event:

Chaired by Eleanor Pender

Running time: 60 minutes

Tickets: £3 / £5 (plus 50p booking fee)

The event will be live on Zoom.

This event includes a Brave New Words reading from C.C. Peñaranda


About the authors:

Kesia Lupo studied History at Oxford University and Creative Writing at Bath Spa. She lives in Bristol with her husband and works as a children's book editor, writing in the mornings before work. Her debut YA novel, We are Blood and Thunder, and its follow-up We are Bound By Stars are published by Bloomsbury.

Kesia is on Twitter.

Victoria Aveyard is an author and screenwriter, born and raised in a small town in Western Massachusetts. Both her parents are public school teachers, as well as avid film, television, and literature fans. Victoria grew up on a steady diet The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and LOST. She pursued a degree in Writing for Film & Television at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. After graduating college in 2012, Victoria moved home from Los Angeles and began writing the manuscript that would become Red Queen. She has since published four #1 New York Times bestselling and USA Today bestselling books, two New York Times bestselling novellas, a New York Times bestselling short story collection. She lives full-time in Los Angeles and is hard at work on her next young adult fantasy series. The first instalment, Realm Breaker, publishes in 2021.

Victoria is on Twitter and Instagram.