Nicholas Bowling & Trudi Tweedie: Heroic Tales in Times Past
About the event
Nicholas Bowling (In The Shadow of Heroes) and Trudi Tweedie (The Pure Heart) take their readers back into times long gone by. In the Roman Empire, Cadmus’s life is turned upside down by a secret message after his master’s disappearance and in Elizabethan Scotland, Iseabail’s life changes forever when she is employed by a wealthy merchant.
Join the authors as they discuss the heroic tales of young adults in spellbinding classical settings.
Chaired by Linda Strachan
About the speakers
Nick Bowling is an author, stand-up comic, musician and Latin teacher from London. He graduated from Oxford University in 2007 with a BA in Classics and English, and again in 2010 with a Masters in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, before moving to his first teaching job at Trinity School, Croydon. While writing his debut novel Witchborn, he has also performed a solo show at the Edinburgh Festival, and has co-written, recorded and released an album and two EPs with soul-folk singer Mary Erskine, Me For Queen. His latest publication is In The Shadow of Heroes.
Trudi Tweedie studied economics at Manchester before ending up in Edinburgh, researching beer for Heineken. She later relocated to beautiful Aberdeenshire, where she now lives with her husband and two kids. The Pure Heart, her debut novel, won the 2018 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition.
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