Author Panel - Local Heroes

Author Panel - Local Heroes

Local Authors

An opportunity to hear from a panel of successful authors, all based in Devon or Cornwall, who will be speaking about the following books:

Eva Glyn – ‘The Dubrovnik Book Club’ and ‘The Croation Island Library’

Stephanie Austin – ‘A Dartmoor Christmas Card Murder’

Jonathan Posner – ‘The Broken Sword’

Felice Hardy - 'The Tennis Champion who Escaped the Nazis'

The Panel will take place in our main auditorium and will be moderated by Cathy Dodd.

About the Authors:

Eva Glyn

Eva Glyn’s novels are inspired by the places she loves to travel to and her fascination with local culture and history.

In 2019 a holiday changed her writing life when a tour guide shared his heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting story of growing up in Mostar during the war in the 1990s. This became The Olive Grove and since then she has written a further six novels for Harper Collins imprint One More Chapter, including The Dubrovnik Book Club, and two Second World War dual timelines set in Croatia.

Although she considers herself Welsh, Eva lives in the South West of England and, as well as travel enjoys walking, wine and indulging her passion for history.

Stephanie Austin

Stephanie Austin is the author of the best-selling Devon Mystery Series, published by Allison and Busby, a series of contemporary crime novels set in the Dartmoor town of Ashburton and featuring reluctant amateur sleuth and antique shop owner, Juno Browne.

Stephanie lives in Devon and had a varied career as a teacher, artist and antiques trader before becoming a writer, and has a long history as an actor and director in amateur theatre. When not writing she likes to garden and cook.

The latest book in the series, ‘How to get Murdered in Devon’, is now out in paperback.   ‘A Dartmoor Christmas Card Murder’ comes out in November.

Jonathan Posner

Jonathan has been an avid reader of fiction ever since he was old enough to own a torch. As a schoolboy he virtually lived in Narnia, and as he got older, he got into historical fiction – particularly Phillipa Gregory, Susan Kay, C J Sansom and the Flashman Papers.

He loves creative writing, and has written the book and lyrics for three full-scale Musicals, all of which have been performed by community or professional casts. In 2015 he upcycled the plot of one of the Musicals into The Witchfinder’s Well, a full-length Elizabethan action and adventure novel. Since then, he has written and published a further six novels and two books of short stories/articles. His latest book, The Assassin’s Revenge, is due out in 2027.

Jonathan is a member of the Society of Authors and the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Felice Hardy

Felice has been a travel writer for most of her career, touring the world for a variety of newspapers and lifestyle magazines. She lives in Somerset with her writer husband and a small black dog. Her three children all live in Devon. Her recent book, The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis, was published by AdLib in the UK and USA. It was also translated into Czech. Her book featured on a 45-minute episode of BBC World Service’s Lives Less Ordinary during the Wimbledon tournament this year

Tickets for this Author Panel are £10.00, including booking fee.

4.00pm to 4.45pm – followed by time for book sales and signings.

Please note: Victoria Dowd is no longer appearing at this event, as previously advertised.

SPECIAL OFFER – Book a ticket for all three Author Panels for £20.00, including booking fee

The three Author Panels in this offer are:

4pm – 4.45pm LOCAL HEROES – Local Authors

5.30pm – 6.15pm ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE –  historical, dystopian, elsewhere

7pm- 7.45pm CRIME AND THRILLERS

(please book your tickets for all three events in one transaction to benefit from this offer).