About this Event
Join us for a fantastic evening, delving into the world of feminist retellings within fiction, with Nikki Marmery, Laura Shepperson and Phoenicia Rogerson.
Nikki Marmery’s most recent novel Lilith rewrites the Garden of Eden and follows Lilith, as she overturns the lie that women are inferior and becomes the heroine women have waited six thousand years for.
From Laura Shepperson comes The Heroines, full of rage, mesmerising twists and pathos, Shepperson's enthralling debut mines the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus to luminous, revisionist effect, giving a voice to the long-silenced stories of Athenian women.
Phoenicia Rogerson is the debut author of Herc. Original and fresh, this wildly entertaining retelling of the Hercules myth presents the titular Greek hero in a wholly new light as it’s time for his friends, enemies, wives, lovers, rivals and victims to give their side of the story.
In a former life, Nikki Marmery worked as a financial journalist. She now writes fiction from a small village near Amersham, where she lives with her husband and three children. Her first novel, On Wilder Seas, was shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society’s New Novel Award and selected for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation’s #AdventureSociety book club.
Laura Shepperson is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Heroines. She has always been fascinated by myths and myth retellings, having studied Classical Studies at university. She is currently studying Classical Greek in her spare time. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction. Laura holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Laura lives outside London with her husband and two children.
Phoenicia Rogerson is altogether mortal with a rather less chequered past than Hercules. After a decade of not being able to find his complete story on bookshelves, she decided to pull her socks up and write it herself. She’s had two short stories published in the UCL Publisher’s Prize. She lives and works in London. Herc is her first novel.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 203-206 Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom
GBP 6.00 to GBP 8.00