Piers Torday, Pari Thomson and Anna James chaired by Sam Leith

Join award-winning and bestselling authors Piers Torday, Pari Thomson and Anna James for a discussion of fantasy writing and their newest novels.

Torday is a bestselling writer of children’s books including The Last Wild, The Dark Wild and The Wild Beyond. His latest, Midnight Treasure, is a fantasy adventure and a story of trust, truth and what it means to be mortal. Thomson’s Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea is the sequel to Greenwild: The World Behind the Door, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year. It is about Daisy Thistledown’s mission to find her kidnapped mother. James is the author of the international bestselling Pages & Co series. Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Age of Enchantment is the first in her new series about a place where everyone has magic inside them.

Explore new stories, hear about their writing and inspiration, and ask questions in this not-to-be-missed panel chaired by Sam Leith, author of The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading.

Age 8+