DiscoveReads author event with dystopian thriller novelist Kate Sawyer

Join us for an author event with dystopian thriller novelist Kate Sawyer, as part of our DiscoveReads project! Kate will be talking to us about her career so far and her award-winning novel The Stranding, which is one of this year's featured DiscoveReads titles.

Tickets are £5.00 each. Price includes refreshments. This event includes an audience Q&A and book signing.

About The Stranding:

Every ending is a new beginning.

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away. When a new romance becomes claustrophobic, Ruth chooses to leave behind the failing relationship, but also her beloved friends and family, and travels to the other side of the world in pursuit of her dream life working with whales in New Zealand.

But when Ruth arrives, the news cycle she has been ignoring for so long is now the new reality. Far from home and with no real hope of survival, she finds herself climbing into the mouth of a beached whale alongside a stranger. When she emerges, it is to a landscape that bears no relation to the world they knew before. When all has been razed to the ground, what does it mean to build a life?

About Kate Sawyer:

Kate was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK where she grew up in the countryside as the eldest of four siblings, after briefly living with her parents in Qatar and the Netherlands. 

Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before turning her hand to fiction. She has previously written for theatre and short-film. Having lived in South London for the best part of two decades with brief stints in the Australia and the USA she recently returned to East Anglia to have her first child as a solo mother by choice.

About DiscoveReads:

DiscoveReads is our programme to help you find new and exciting reads and get you talking about books. With a selection of five great books recommended by readers, DiscoveReads is a unique way to take your reading to new places. All you need is your library card and an open mind!

Find out more about our DiscoveReads programme.