The specter of graduation looms large in Naomi Novik’s The Last Graduate, the sequel to A Deadly Education, and this school of magic is unlike anything you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you're inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die.

Even though El Higgins possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions - never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school - she has no idea how she and her allies will make it through the graduation hall alive. Unless, of course, she finally accepts her foretold destiny…

Chaired by Lucy Hounsom.

About the event

Running time: 60 minutes

Price: £6/£4 concession (plus 50p booking fee)

This event is live on Zoom.

About the author

Naomi Novik is the acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author of the Nebula Award-winning novel Uprooted, Spinning Silver, and the nine-volume Temeraire series, as well as a founder of the Archive of Our Own. Her book A Deadly Education is the first of the Scholomance trilogy, followed by The Last Graduate.

Follow Naomi Novik on Twitter @naominovik or visit their website.