Climate Fiction: An Evening with Katie Hale, Kate Sawyer, and Manda Scott

Join us for a discussion of a growing branch of literature: Climate Fiction. This CliFi panel includes thrilling bestselling authors Katie Hale, Kate Sawyer, and Manda Scott.

Book signing to follow.

About the authors

Katie Hale is a novelist and poet who lives in Cumbria. Set in a time of acute climate crisis, The Edge of Solitude is a powerful story about the collision of ambition and principle and its devastating repercussions. Clare Pollard writes, “This intelligent, tense eco-thriller made me shiver with creeping dread. Katie Hale’s ice-cool exploration of guilt is also a total pleasure.”

Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer, and wrote several short films before turning her hand to fiction. She is the author of two novels, most recently the critically acclaimed, Waterstones Fiction Book of The Month, This Family. Her debut novel, The Stranding – a story of one woman’s extraordinary journey as the world reels from a seismic catastrophic event – was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian fiction prize, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for TV by Fremantle and Afua Hirsch's production company Born In Me.

Manda Scott is a bestselling author of crime and historical fiction. Shortlisted for an Orange Prize, winner of the McInvaney Prizeshe now turns her hand to a seismic political thriller Any Human Power, described by Lee Child as ‘instantly immersive and compelling, rich and strange, human and humane’. The British Fantasy Society writes, ‘A taut political eco-thriller … I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Ursula Le Guin, speculative fiction in general or concerned about the current global situation.’