Double Book Launch at Waterstones, Kensington High Street
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Come and join us on Friday 6th October for a DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH at Waterstones, Kensington High Street!
CLARE FLYNN and JOANNA WARRINGTON will be the two novelists reading out the opening chapters of their novels, followed by a Q&A session.
This is a free event but we ask that you buy a book.
There will be a chance to network with readers, writers and publishing professionals.
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CLARE FLYNN writes historical fiction with a strong sense of time and place and compelling characters. Her books often deal with characters who are displaced - forced out of their comfortable lives and familiar surroundings. She is a graduate of Manchester University where she read English Language and Literature.
Born in Liverpool Clare is the eldest of five children. After a career in international marketing, working on brands from nappies to tinned tuna and living in Paris, Milan, Brussels and Sydney, she ran her own consulting business for 15 years and now lives in Eastbourne where she writes full-time – and can look out of her window and see the sea.
When not writing and reading, Clare loves to paint with watercolours and grabs any available opportunity to travel - sometimes under the guise of research.
JOANNA WARRINGTON lives in Sussex. She’s divorced and a single mother of three children and a self proclaimed expert on internet dating.
Joanna is an independent funeral celebrant, a carer of a thalidomide and has travelled to many places across the United States. Her travels and her experiences as a single mother have inspired ‘Holiday’ and her earlier novels ‘Every Family Has One’ and ‘The Catholic Woman’s Dying Wish.’
Joanna loves studying the different people she meets on her trips. ‘Holiday’ combines travel writing with a story about the joys and challenges of family.
She recently achieved a 5 star award for ‘Holiday’ from the Readers’ Favorite in America.
OUR COMPERE for the evening is DEBBIE YOUNG. She writes warm, witty, feelgood fiction inspired by life in the English village where she lives with her husband and daughter. The Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series is her first venture into writing novels, but she has previously published three themed collections of short stories, "Stocking Fillers", "Marry in Haste" and "Quick Change". She publishes a new collection every year. Her stories also feature in many anthologies and she has performed them at many spoken word events including the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the Evesham Festival of Words and Stroud Short Stories.
She is founder and director of the Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival and reviews editor for Vine Leaves Literary Journal. She is a regular guest on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Book Club and often appears on other regional and community radio stations. She is an ambassador for the British children's reading charity Read for Good and for the Type 1 diabetes research charity JDRF. For more information about her writing life, please see her author website: www.authordebbieyoung.com.
Debbie launched Best Murder in Show at Novel London in June 2017.
NB: The readings will be recorded and uploaded to the internet. Please let the camera crew know if you do not wish to be recorded.
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