OId stories and myths continue to capture our imagination.
Joanne Harris’ collection Maiden, Mother, Crone brings together her award-winning novellas A Pocketful of Crows, The Blue Salt Road and Orfeia, which reimagine traditional British folktales into a timely, relevant and powerful new stories.
In Song of the Huntress, the follow-up to her bestselling novel Sistersong, Lucy Holland puts a female warrior leader at the centre of the Wild Hunt, while Shona Kinsella’s new book The Heart of Winter is a fresh take on the story of the Cailleach, the goddess of winter in Gaelic mythology.
Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE by the Queen.
Lucy Holland aka Lucy Hounsom has a BA Hons in English & Creative Writing and an MA in Creative Writing, both from the University of London, and four books published with Pan Macmillan. She has twelve years of bookselling experience at Waterstones Booksellers, and co-hosts the award-winning intersectional feminist podcast, ‘Breaking the Glass Slipper’.
Shona Kinsella is the author of epic fantasy, The Vessel of KalaDene series, dark Scottish fantasy Petra MacDonald and the Queen of the Fae and British Fantasy Award shortlisted industrial fantasy The Flame and the Flood as well as the non-fiction Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for Freedom. She was editor of the British Fantasy Society’s fiction publication BFS Horizons for four years and is now Chair of the British Fantasy Society. Shona is an avid reader with a love for language and is most often to be found with her nose in a book. She has worked in varied industries, from acting to the civil service, and has a degree in law from the University of Strathclyde.
This event will be chaired by Katalina Watt.
About the event
Running time: 55 minutes followed by a book signing
Venue: Pleasance Theatre
Price: £11/£8 concession - In Person - or £5.50 Live Stream - (plus 50p booking fee)
This event takes place in person and is broadcast via live stream.
A recording of this event will be available to catch-up on our YouTube until Sunday 14th July 2024. Ticket holders and weekend pass owners will receive the catch-up link automatically after the festival. Please keep an eye on your SPAM.
