About this Event
Join us for a wonderful evening with bestselling authors Josh Silver and Danielle Jawando as we celebrate the release of their most recent novels.
Josh Silver - Dead Happy
‘One of the very best voices in YA right now.’ Benjamin Dean
FRIENDS, WELCOME TO ELMHALLOW. YOU ARE THE CHOSEN TEN.
By some miracle, Seb has survived the HappyHead programme, only to find himself stranded on a remote island under the guidance of a freakishly beautiful couple.
Far from home, Seb reluctantly teams up with Eleanor again and the pair are forced to compete in a series of ever stranger trials to prove their connection. All the while, he can’t stop thinking about Finn. Determined to find him, Seb’s search uncovers an even darker reality.
Can he escape the island and expose the sinister truth behind HappyHead?
If My Words Had Wings - Danielle Jawando
From the former Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlisted author of When Our Worlds Collided comes a blazing novel of rehabilitation and redemption as teenage Tyrell turns to poetry upon his release from a young offenders' Pr*son.
When fifteen-year-old Tyrell Forrester gets caught up in a high-profile armed robbery, he's sentenced to two years in a young offenders’ Pr*son. Now he’s getting out, and he’s determined to turn his life around. But despite his release, systemic discrimination makes it difficult for Ty to truly be free. Inspired by a visiting poet while inside, Ty discovers a whole new world through spoken word and is finally finding his voice. But will society ever see him as anything other than a criminal?
Josh Silver grew up in the north and moved to London to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art when he was 17. In 2019 he retrained as a Mental Health Nurse, and during this time he began to write. Josh lives in Manchester with his boyfriend David and their dog Dodger. HappyHead is Josh’s debut YA novel and was published by Rock the Boat in March 2023.
Danielle Jawando is an author and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel, And the Stars Were Burning Brightly, won best senior novel in the Great Reads Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize, the Branford Boase Award, and was longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the UKLA Book Awards and the Amazing Book Awards. Her previous publications include the non-fiction children’s book Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives), the short stories Paradise 703 (longlisted for the Finishing Line Press Award) and The Deerstalker (selected as one of six finalists for the We Need Diverse Books short story competition), as well as several short plays performed in Manchester and London. Danielle has also worked on Coronation Street as a storyline writer. Her second novel, When Our Worlds Collided, won the 2023 Jhalak Children’s and YA Prize and the 2023 YA Book Prize.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 12 College Lane, Liverpool, United Kingdom
GBP 3.00 to GBP 4.00