Local Authors
An opportunity to hear from a panel of successful authors, all based in Devon or Cornwall, who will be speaking about the following books:
Eva Glyn – ‘The Dubrovnik Book Club’ and ‘The Croation Island Library’
Stephanie Austin – ‘A Dartmoor Christmas Card Murder’
Victoria Dowd – ‘Threefold Death’
Jonathan Posner – ‘The Broken Sword’
The Panel will take place in our main auditorium and will be moderated by Cathy Dodd.
About the Authors:
Eva Glyn
Eva Glyn’s novels are inspired by the places she loves to travel to and her fascination with local culture and history.
In 2019 a holiday changed her writing life when a tour guide shared his heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting story of growing up in Mostar during the war in the 1990s. This became The Olive Grove and since then she has written a further six novels for Harper Collins imprint One More Chapter, including The Dubrovnik Book Club, and two Second World War dual timelines set in Croatia.
Although she considers herself Welsh, Eva lives in the South West of England and, as well as travel enjoys walking, wine and indulging her passion for history.
Stephanie Austin
Stephanie Austin is the author of the best-selling Devon Mystery Series, published by Allison and Busby, a series of contemporary crime novels set in the Dartmoor town of Ashburton and featuring reluctant amateur sleuth and antique shop owner, Juno Browne.
Stephanie lives in Devon and had a varied career as a teacher, artist and antiques trader before becoming a writer, and has a long history as an actor and director in amateur theatre. When not writing she likes to garden and cook.
The latest book in the series, ‘How to get Murdered in Devon’, is now out in paperback. ‘A Dartmoor Christmas Card Murder’ comes out in November.
Victoria Dowd
Victoria is the award-winning author of the bestselling Smart Woman’s Mystery series and has been shortlisted for the CWA Dagger. Her novel, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, won The People’s Book Prize for fiction and was In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel’s Book of the Year. She was awarded the Gothic Fiction prize.
Victoria is the Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and was a criminal defence barrister.
The latest novel in her historical crime series is Threefold Death. Her standalone novel, The New Rules of Murder, will be published by Sphere in June next year.
Jonathan Posner
Jonathan has been an avid reader of fiction ever since he was old enough to own a torch. As a schoolboy he virtually lived in Narnia, and as he got older, he got into historical fiction – particularly Phillipa Gregory, Susan Kay, C J Sansom and the Flashman Papers.
He loves creative writing, and has written the book and lyrics for three full-scale Musicals, all of which have been performed by community or professional casts. In 2015 he upcycled the plot of one of the Musicals into The Witchfinder’s Well, a full-length Elizabethan action and adventure novel. Since then, he has written and published a further six novels and two books of short stories/articles. His latest book, The Assassin’s Revenge, is due out in 2027.
Jonathan is a member of the Society of Authors and the Alliance of Independent Authors.
Tickets for this Author Panel are £10.00, including booking fee.
4.00pm to 4.45pm – followed by time for book sales and signings.
SPECIAL OFFER – Book a ticket for all three Author Panels for £20.00, including booking fee
The three Author Panels in this offer are:
4pm – 4.45pm LOCAL HEROES – Local Authors
5.30pm – 6.15pm ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE – historical, dystopian, elsewhere
7pm- 7.45pm CRIME AND THRILLERS
(please book your tickets for all three events in one transaction to benefit from this offer).
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