Kiran Millwood Hargrave & Kat Dunn: Past Tension
About the event
From the crypts of Dracul's castle to the ramparts of the Bastille, these historical novelists plunge us into a dark past with their death-defying characters.
In The Deathless Girls, Kiran Millwood Hargraves imagines the origin story of the brides of Dracula. Kat Dunn's debut novel Dangerous Remedy is the first in an adventure series set against the backdrop of the French Revolution.
With a Brave New Words reading from Daniel Allison
Chaired by Eleanor Pender
About the speakers
Kiran Millwood Hargrave was born in Surrey in 1990, and her earliest ambition was to be a cat, closely followed by a cat-owner or the first woman on Mars. She has achieved only one of these things but discovered that being a writer lets you imagine whatever you want. Her bestselling debut The Girl of Ink & Stars won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year. Her second standalone story, The Island at the End of Everything, was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award and longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her third book, The Way Past Winter, was the Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year 2018. Her debut YA title, The Deathless Girls, is forthcoming from Hachette in September.
Kat Dunn grew up in London and has lived in Japan, Australia and France. She has a BA in Japanese from SOAS and an MA in English from Warwick. She’s written about mental health for Mind and The Guardian and worked as a translator for Japanese television. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition, and Dangerous Remedy is her first novel.
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