Natalie Haynes & Sophie Hannah, London

Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes

The Author

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a non-fiction book about ancient history, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing classics to a wider audience.

Praise for Natalie Haynes

New life is breathed into a powerful ancient story through Natalie Haynes’s clever and vivid story telling.  Martha Kearney.

The Book

Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met.  Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.  Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the place she calls home.  Since the day of her parents’ tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has.  But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.  With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion.  But not as you know it.  In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes reimagines the Oeipdus and Antigone stories from the perspectives of two of the women who have often been overlooked; retelling the myth to reveal a new side of an ancient story.

Did You See Melody? by Sophie Hannah

The Author

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer. Her crime novels  have been translated into 34 languages and published in 51 countries. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. In 2014 and 2016, Sophie published The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket, the first new Hercule Poirot mysteries since Agatha Christie’s death, both of which were national and international bestsellers. Sophie’s novels The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives have been adapted for television as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. Sophie is also a bestselling poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE and A-level throughout the UK. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, two children and dog.

Praise for Sophie Hannah

No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah . . . unpredictable, unputdownable and unlike anything else you’ve read before.  Liane Moriarty author of Big, Little Lies

 The Book

Cara Burrows has spent a third of the family’s savings on a two-week stay at a 5 star spa resort in Paradise Valley, Arizona. She hasn’t told her husband and children where she’s going. Arriving late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied by a man and a teenage girl. A simple mistake on the part of the hotel receptionist – but Cara’s unease deepens when she works out that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is somebody she can’t possibly have seen: the most famous murder victim in America, Melody Chapa, whose parents are serving life sentences for her murder.

Cara doesn’t know what to trust: everything she’s read and heard about the case, or the evidence of her own eyes. Did she really see Melody? And is she prepared to ask herself that question and answer it honestly if it means risking her own life?

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