In the wastelands of a future Britain, the unlikely heroes of the new novels by T.L. Huchu and Jonathan Stroud just try to make a living.
In T.L Huchu's Edinburgh-set The Library of the Dead, Ropa makes her living delivering messages between the living and the dead. When the ghosts star whispering of an evil targetting children, she sets out to discover the trush - armed with Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism.
In Jonathan Stroud's The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, Scarlett prefers bank robbery to a more traditional career path. A chance encounter in the wilderness opens up a whole new set of opportunities. All Scarlett has to do is survive the flight across hostile countryside with its giant otters and cannibals, and the company of Browne.
About the event:
Chaired by Patrice Lawrence
Running time: 60 minutes
The event premiered on YouTube.
After the premiere, the event will be hosted on the Member Area of the Cymera website.
About the authors
T. L. Huchu is a writer whose short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Interzone, AfroSF and elsewhere. He is the winner of a Nommo Award for African SF/F, and has been short-listed for the Caine Prize and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. Between projects, he translates fiction from Shona into English and the reverse. The Library of the Dead is the first in his Edinburgh Nights series."
Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford, England and grew up in St Albans. After graduating from York University he embarked on a publishing and writing career in the gamebook and non-fiction department at Walker Books. He moved to Kingfisher Publications to edit children's non-fiction, and for a time juggled working with writing, but Stroud is now a full-time writer. In May 1999, Stroud burst onto the children’s book scene with his first novel, Buried Fire. His second fantasy adventure, The Leap, was published in January 2001 as part of the new Definitions list. 2003 saw the publication of a brand new novel, the first title of The Bartimeus Trilogy called The Amulet of Samarkand, an enthralling new fantasy trilogy about a wickedly witty and thoroughly irresistible "djinni." The Last Siege, published in October 2006, tells the tale of a chance encounter on the snowy slopes of a castle moat which throws together three lonely teenagers whose playful dares turn into a frenzy of nightmarish action when a re-enactment of a castle siege becomes very real.
Jonathan is on Twitter.
