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SUMMARY:An Evening with Kathy Reichs
DESCRIPTION:​Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs for a rare visit to the UK to celebrate over 25 years of her bestselling series. \n​Best known as the inspiration behind Fox Television’s longest-running scripted drama\, Bones\, Kathy will be in Manchester for a one-night-only. She’ll be discussing her career as an author and forensic anthropologist\, how she crafts her smash-hit stories and what it takes to plot and pen a murder. \n​Hosted by Sunday Times Best Seller\, Clare Mackintosh\, join us for an evening of stories. \n​Every book + ticket comes with a copy of Fire & Bones\, which Kathy will sign and dedicate on the day. \n​\nAbout the book: Fire & Bones\n\n\n\n​It’s never easy working fire scenes. \nCalled to Washington\, DC to analyse the victims of a mysterious arson attack\, Tempe quickly finds her misgivings justified. The fire site is in Foggy Bottom\, a neighbourhood with a colourful history\, and as the pieces start falling into place\, the property’s ownership becomes more and more suspicious. \nSensing a good story\, Tempe teams up with a new ally\, telejournalist Ivy Doyle. Delving into the past\, the duo learns that back in the Thirties and Forties\, the home was the hangout of a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting\, this fact seems irrelevant – until the son of one of the gang members is shot dead at his farm in Virginia. \nWhen another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground\, claiming one more victim\, what might have been a coincidence starts to look more like targeted attacks. As she and Ivy dig deeper\, Tempe’s instincts point towards the obvious: somehow\, her every move since coming to Washington has been anticipated in advance. And every path forward brings with it a lethal threat. \n​About Kathy Reichs\n\n\n\n​Kathy Reichs’s first novel\, Déjà Dead\, published in 1997\, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. \n​To date\, she has written twenty-four novels featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Kathy was also a producer of Fox Television’s longest-running scripted drama\, Bones\, which was based on her work and her novels. One of the very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology\, Kathy lives in Charlotte.
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SUMMARY:An evening with Katherine Rundell
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome bestselling author Katherine Rundell to Manchester to celebrate the release of The Poisoned King! \nThe mesmerising follow-up to Rundell’s Waterstones Book of the Year 2023-winning Impossible Creatures finds Christopher embroiled in an elaborate rescue mission as he returns to the magical world of the Archipelago. \nKatherine joins us at Manchester Central Library for a talk\, audience Q&A and signing. Please note that Katherine will sign all books bought from Waterstones on the day of the event\, but due to time restraints and to make sure that all readers have a chance to get their book signed\, Katherine will only be able to sign one book brought from home \nAbout The Poisoned King \nThe dragons call out\, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. \nCome with us now. There is justice to be done.\n\n\n\nReturn to the Archipelago – the secret place in our world where all the creatures of myth still live and thrive\, for a rescue mission like no other. The Poisoned King is the second book in the epic Impossible Creatures fantasy series from bestselling author Katherine Rundell. \nWhen Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face\, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx\, or a plan to enter a dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side\, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice… \nAbout the author \nKATHERINE RUNDELL is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize\, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award\, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones Book of the Year 2023\, and in 2024 Katherine was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College\, Oxford\, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite\, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford\, late at night.
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