London History Festival welcomes you to this evening's panel of three authors who have delved into history for inspiration for their work.

Come along, enjoy a complementary glass of wine and what promises to be a fantastic treat for all history buffs.

Please note that the concessionary rate of £3 per ticket is available to pensioners, students and people on benefits via a separate Eventbrite link.

Natasha Pulley's highly acclaimed debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, is a historical fantasy thriller set in atmospheric, smoggy Victorian London and Japan. Her new novel, The Bedlam Stacks, is set mainly in Peru, where the book's hero has been sent by the India Office to collect samples from the fiercely guarded cinchona trees, the source of the quinine desperately needed to combat malaria. But mysteries abound in the holy town of Bedlam, on the edge of the forest, where the statues appear to move and to enter means certain death...

Natasha is a winner of a Betty Trask Award for her first novel. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street was an international bestseller, a Guardian Summer Read, an Amazon Best Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. The Bedlam Stacks is her second novel. She lives in Bath.

Stuart Turton is a freelance travel journalist who has previously worked in Shanghai and Dubai. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is his debut novel. TV rights have been optioned by House Productions. Stuart is the winner of the Brighton and Hove Short Story Prize and was longlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition. He lives in West London with his wife.

Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Her first novel, The Silent Companions, won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award 2018 and featured in both the Zoe Ball and Radio 2 Book Clubs. It is followed by The Corset, published in September 2018.

Laura’s historical fiction novels about the Hanoverian monarchs, Queen of Bedlam and The Mistress of the Court, were published by Myrmidon.