Author Available: Trilby Kent, Smoke Portrait

Trilby Kent is available for library events, reading groups sessions and readers' days. Children aged 10+. Trilby would also be happy to talk to classes of students.

To set up an event, please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info about the book, please visit http://www.almabooks.com/stones-for-my-father-p-384-book.html

Stones for My Father deals with the second Boer war, and gives quite an uncompromisingly critical appraisal of the English repression of the Boers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It's the story of a young girl and of his family, and their trials as they are pushed away from their farm and imprisoned in a concentration camp.
The author is a descendant of the Boer war hero Danie Theron.

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Crime author Kate Ellis

1st October

Bestselling crime writer, Kate Ellis, is coming to Blackburn library on Saturday, October 1, at 2pm to talk about her latest novel, The Jackal Man, and sign books. Kate Ellis has written 19 crime novels, including 15 in the 'Wesley Peterson' series. She blends a historical thriller with a modern day murder in this series. They are a great way to try something different.

Tickets are £1 and are available from Blackburn library.

For more information www.blackburn.gov.uk/libraries

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Philip Caveney

January 2011 - April 2011

The wonderful author of the highly popular SEBASTIAN DARKE series has written a prequel - A BUFFALOPE'S TALE. Perfect for 9 - 11 year olds. "Unputdownable!" CBBC Newsround

Contact laura@bookguild.co.uk

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M J Hyland available for events in Manchester

April onwards

This Is How was selected for the 2010 Orange longlist, and MJ Hyland was Booker-shortlisted in 2006 for Carry Me Down. This Is How takes you inside the claustrophobic mind of accidental murderer Patrick Oxtoby. As with all Hyland's books, the writing is sharp and incredibly tight, and the book will throw up a lot of questions.

'When you've been reading Hyland, other writers seem to lack integrity; they seem wedded to weak confabulations, whereas she aims straight for the truth and the heart.' - Hilary Mantel

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