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Unveiling Stories, Unravelling Secrets: An Evening with Emilia Hart, Alex Hay and Lora Jones

What to expect

19/03/2025 7:00 pm

Come and listen to three master storytellers talk about their immersive, page turning new novels – the power of female connection, bringing the past to life, secrets, lies and spellbinding reveals.  

Tickets are £18.99 each and include one of the three author’s books.

Emilia Hart:

Emilia Hart is a British-Australian writer and author of the international bestseller,
Weyward. She was born in Sydney and studied English Literature and Law at the
University of New South Wales before working as a lawyer in Sydney and London.
Emilia is a graduate of Curtis Brown Creative’s Three-Month Online Novel Writing
Course and was Highly Commended in the 2021 Caledonia Novel Award. Her
short fiction has been published in Australia and the UK. She lives in London.

About The Sirens:

Sisters separated by hundreds of years. Voices that can’t be drowned out.

Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her. There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone. Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without a trace. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women’s voices murmuring on the waves…
As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder. They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported across the world. A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar.

Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?

The Sirens is an extraordinary novel about sisterhood and the indefinable magic of the sea, about women facing off against the unexpected and coming powerfully into their own.

Lora Jones:

After studying English Literature at Durham University, Lora Jones began her career working in the TV industry in London, writing factual programme content and comedy material for the BBC, Channel 4 and others. She now lives high amongst the rugged hills of North Wales, where she is currently rewilding an ex sheep farm. In her spare time she paints wildlife. The Woman in the Wallpaper is her first novel.

About The Woman in the Wallpaper

The Miniaturist meets The Yellow Wallpaper in this sumptuous debut novel about three women whose fates collide in a wallpaper factory on the eve of the French Revolution.

Are some patterns destined to be repeated?

Paris, 1789. The Oberst Factory, which crafts exquisite wallpaper

for the most fashionable French homes, is a place shrouded in mystery. Most enigmatic is the woman pictured in each of its prints, rumoured to be the late Mrs Oberst, who died in peculiar circumstances.
When sisters Lara and Sofi arrive there for work, they quickly form a friendship with Josef Oberst, the motherless heir to the factory. Whilst Sofi’s political fervour intensifies, Lara is disturbed by the uncanny way her life appears mirrored in the wallpaper. Meanwhile Hortense, Josef’s spoilt aristocratic wife, is similarly unnerved by the scenes that line the walls of her new home. With the mobs growing ever more violent, is she in danger of meeting the same untimely end as the last Mrs Oberst?
As revolution blazes across France, the lives of Sofi, Lara and Hortense are set to collide in unimaginable and irrevocable ways. Can they change what lies ahead, or are some patterns destined to be repeated?

 

Alex Hay:

Alex Hay grew up in Cambridge and Cardiff and has been writing for as long as he can remember. He studied History at the University of York, and wrote his dissertation on female power at royal courts,
combing the archives for every scrap of drama and skullduggery he could find. He has worked in magazine publishing and the charity sector and is a graduate of the Curtis Brown Write Your Novel course. His debut novel The Housekeepers won the Caledonia Novel Award 2022 and
was published to great critical acclaim. Alex lives with his husband in South East London.

About The Queen of Fives:

They whisper her name in every corner of town.
The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.
Five moves, five days – for such are the rules of her game.
1898. Quinn Le Blanc, London’s most talented con woman, has five days to pull off the seemingly impossible: trick an eligible duke into marriage and lift a fortune from the richest family in England.
Masquerading as a wealthy debutante, Quinn is the jewel of the season. Her brilliant act opens doors to the grand drawing rooms and lavish balls of high society – and propels her into the inner circle of her target: the corrupt, charismatic Kendals.
But as she spins in and out of their world, Quinn becomes tangled in a dangerous web of love, lies and loyalty. The Kendal family all have secrets of their own, and she may not be the only one playing a game of high deception…

Venue Information

Linghams Booksellers, 248 Telegraph Road, Heswall , Wirral

Tickets

Book and ticket £18.99 (choice of 3 books)