Hot Tickets: 12 August

Megan Abbott and Kathleen Winter
3:30pm - 4:30pm, 14 August

Adolescence will always be a hot topic for novelists, but rarely will you get the chance to see two authors who have produced such unique works discussing them in the same room. Winter has won a slew of awards for Annabel, a moving account of a hermaphrodite's struggle to assert his female identity, while American Megan Abbott’s The End of Everything tells a 13 year old girl setting out to solve the mystery of her missing friend. Costa prize-winning Maggie O'Farrell chairs.

Chris Adrian with Audrey Niffenegger
3:30pm - 4:30pm, 16 August

If a chance to see The Time Traveller's Wife author Audrey Niffenegger speak isn’t enough, Chris Adrian’s fascinating insights into the relationship between his own reality—his life working with young cancer patients—and that of his critically acclaimed novel The Children’s Hospital, set below the sea (of course), should suffice.

Jasper Fforde
11:30am-12:30pm, 18 August

What better way to start your day than with a journey through, quite literally, some of our most-loved novels? Thursday Next is a detective who moves between the real and fictional words. In the series' debut, Thursday went to investigate why the characters in Jane Eyre had gone missing. If you’ve ever wondered what your favourite characters get up to when their author’s attention is elsewhere, Fforde has the answers.