In conversation with author Evie King

We're delighted to welcome back Evie King

Evie will be talking about:
– Life as a social funeral provider
– The unclaimed people she finds and honours
– How she balances death admin with pub licensing (yes, really)
– What she’s learned about people, grief, and storytelling along the way

Evie will also be talking about her new book Matters of Death and Life. Evie's new book Matters of Death and Life is being published next June and available to pre-order at Amazon

Evie King is a council worker and writer. A former stand up comedian, she has always written short form pieces in the margins of her various day jobs, contributing to New Humanist, Guardian Comment is Free, BBC Comedy and Viz Comic. After moving to the seaside and going part-time she had more time for writing and completed her first book, Ashes to Admin, about her job arranging council funerals. It has sold over 10,000 copies and won the ASDS 2025 Book Award. Her second book, Matters of Death and Life is coming in June 2026. She is an ambassador for missing persons and cold case charity Locate International, presents as an expert practitioner at international death conferences and heads up the UK training programme for council funeral workers.