Resource scarcity and corrupt governments shape the near future Britain of Lucy Cruickshanks’ and Jamie Mollart’s latest books. In Cruickshank’s The Liberation’s Child, two survivors of genocide, Thea and Dom, collide as they try to uncover the truth behind an illegal adoption ring and find a missing baby. In Kings of a Dead World, Jamie Mollart imagines a society where Earth’s remaining supplies are being rationed by making humankind hibernate. In the sleeping city, elderly Ben struggles with his limited waking time and the disease which is stealing his wife from him. Outside, lonely Janitor Peruzzi craves the family he never knew. Around them both, dissatisfaction is growing. The city is about to wake.

About the event

Running time: 60 minues

Venue: Pleasance Upper Hall

Price: £10/£8 concession - In Person - or £6/£4 concession - Live Stream - (plus 50p booking fee)

This event takes place in person and is broadcasted via a live stream.

About the authors

Jamie Mollart runs his own advertising company, and has won awards for marketing. Over the years he has been widely published in magazines, been a guest on some well-respected podcasts and blogs, and Patrick Neate called him 'quite a writer' on the Book Slam podcast. He is married and lives in Leicestershire with his wife and cat.

Follow Jamie Mollart on Twitter @jamiemollart or visit his website.

Lucy Cruickshanks’ novels have been shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, named a Top Ten Book of the Year by The Bookbag, and featured widely in the press. A great fan of the underdog, she’s drawn to people and places grappling with political instability, writing about societies at their most precarious and fraught with risk.

Follow Lucy Cruickshanks on Twitter @LucyBookshanks or visit her website.