Pick the brains of two great storytellers whose thrilling tales are often inspired by history, real life events, and sometimes even great works of fiction.
Pick the brains of two great storytellers whose thrilling tales are often inspired by history, real life events, and sometimes even great works of fiction.
Put on your bravest face and join us as we sink our teeth into two very juicy bodies of work, including Emma Carroll’s Strange Star and Tanya Landman’s Frankenstein, both inventive tellings, in different ways, of the iconic Gothic tale.
These two master storytellers know how to write gripping, deliciously, dark tales so settle in as they talk about their favourite thrilling and chilling stories and answer all your questions on writing, research, and finding inspiration for the present in tales from the past.
Emma Carroll taught English for twenty years until a life-changing cancer diagnosis meant that she felt brave enough to give her dream of being an author a try. Nowadays she’s a bestselling author and has been nominated for and won numerous awards – including Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award, Branford Boase, CILIP Carnegie Medal, Young Quills, Teach Primary and the Waterstones Book Prize.
Award winning author Tanya Landman writes across a broad age range, but is is probably best known for her historical thrillers for young adults including Apache, The Goldsmith’s Daughter and Buffalo Soldier which won the 2015 Carnegie Medal. Tanya’s most recent titles have included accessible re-tellings of classic novels including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.