In Conversation: Lucy Rose and India-Rose Bower

Thu Jul 16 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+01:00

Bewick Hall, Level 2, Newcastle City Library | Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle Libraries
Publisher/HostNewcastle Libraries
In Conversation: Lucy Rose and India-Rose Bower
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The authors of The Lamb and They Call Them Witches discuss horror in nature and feminist folklore.
About this Event

Newcastle Libraries continues their Year of Reading summer program, bringing together Lucy Rose,The Lamb (2025) and India-Rose Bower, We Call Them Witches (2025).

Folklore, the supernatural and complicated family ties are key themes in both author's work. Using rural northern landscapes for their settings, the authors both create a compelling and unsettling world where terrifying things can happen.

This event will include a Q&A, book sale and book signing


Lucy Rose’s fiction and non-fiction have been published by Dread Central, Mslexia, The Observer, The Nerd Daily and more, and her films have visited BAFTA- and Oscar-qualifying film festivals internationally. She is also a Forbes Under 30 and a Books Are My Bag Fiction Award Shortlistee.

Lucy’s Sunday Times Bestselling debut novel, The Lamb, is published by W&N Books in the UK and Harper in the US. It was selected for Foyles Book of the Month, named best debut novel of 2025 by Cosmopolitan and Spotify, chosen for Dakota Johnson’s Tea Time Book Club, became a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist and Netgalley’s Literary Fiction Novel of the Year 2025.

Lucy lives on the north-east coast of England with her black cat, Figgy, and is currently working on her next story.


India-Rose Bower as long-listed for the Discoveries prize, and has several short stories and poems published in magazines and anthologies. Her hobbies are attending pagal festivals and watching horror filmes, while working as a libraries.

India-Rose has a long-term disability and lives with her non-binary partner in Yorkshire.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bewick Hall, Level 2, Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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