We Played With Fire: Book Launch with Catherine Barter and Fen Coles

Housmans Bookshop

Online book launch for We Played With Fire, the new YA novel from Catherine Barter.

Join us over Zoom for the launch of We Played With Fire by Catherine Barter (Andersen Press) . Catherine will be in conversation with Fen Coles, co-director of radical children's bookseller Letterbox Library. We Played With Fire is a YA novel inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters, the girls who made their fortune in nineteenth century America by speaking to ghosts. <a href="https://housmans.com/product/pre-order-we-played-with-fire/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Signed &amp; personalised copies can be pre-ordered from Housmans Bookshop.</a>You will receive the link for the Zoom event by email on the day of the launch**Catherine Barter grew up in Warwickshire, and then lived in Norwich for ten years, where she worked in a library, a bookshop, and for an organisation campaigning for the rights of garment workers. After gaining a PhD in American literature, she ditched academia for the lucrative world of independent bookselling. She now lives in London and is one of the co-managers at Housmans, a radical independent bookshop in King’s Cross. With Letterbox Library, she also helps to co-ordinate the Little Rebels Children's Book Award for radical children's fiction.Fen Coles is co-director of Letterbox Library, a 32-year-old children's booksellers and workers' cooperative, specialising in inclusive children's books. Fen has worked at Letterbox Library since 2005. Prior to this she worked in the LGBT and women's charitable sector, and taught Lesbian Cultural Studies to adult returners (while completing her PhD in lesbian horror films.) Fen is also co-founder and coordinator of the Little Rebels Children's Book Award.

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