In Conversation with Sophie Hannah and Nic Aubury

Join us at Leamington Library where we will be chatting with Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling writer of crime fiction, Sophie Hannah and hilarious poet, Nic Aubury.

No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done (being published June 2025)

You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the police on the doorstep. First they check you're who they expected to find at the address. What they say next traps you in a nightmare, and there seems to be no way out. It starts with the words, 'I'm afraid...'

Sally Lambert is afraid too – so scared, she can hardly stand up straight, and desperate enough to consider the unthinkable. Is it really, definitely, impossible to escape from this horror? Maybe not. There's always something you can do, right?

Of course, no one would ever do this particular something – except the Lamberts, who might have to. No one has ever gone this far.

Until Sally decides that the Lamberts will.

About Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling writer of crime fiction, published in forty-nine languages and fifty-one territories. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. She writes contemporary psychological thrillers and, at the request of Agatha Christie’s family and estate, the new series of Hercule Poirot novels.

Sophie’s M**der mystery musical, The Mystery of Mr E, was released as a feature film in 2023, directed by Martyn Tott, and is available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+ and soon to be on several other platforms too. In 2023, Sophie won the Crime Writers Association’s Dagger in the Library Award for her body of work, and in 2013 her thriller The Carrier won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards. Sophie is also a poet and has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A Level and degree level across the UK.

Sophie is the founder and coach at Dream Author Coaching, a coaching programme for writers and anyone who wants to write. She lives with her husband, children and dog in Cambridge, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

Things My Children Think I’m Wrong About

'Memorable, musical, witty and just brilliant in every way. Nic is hands down the best new poet to emerge in the last 20 years.‘ – Sophie Hannah

Perfect for sharing and demanding to be read aloud, this funny, pithy, highly relatable collection of small but perfectly formed poems provides the antidote to the manifold frustrations and absurdities of adult life. A verse companion to modern parenthood, it is the ideal gift for any mother or father whose children know they are wrong about everything.

About Nic Aubury

Nic Aubury was born in Watford in 1974 and grew up in the Midlands. He read Classics at Oxford and now teaches Latin and Greek for a living. He had a chapbook and a full collection of poetry published by the now defunct Nasty Little Press (Small Talk, 2011 & Cold Soup, 2013) and has performed his poetry at various festivals including Port Eliot, Latitude, the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and the Ledbury Poetry Festival. The poem Decline and Fall was chosen as a Poem of the Week in the Guardian newspaper in 2015, and poems of his have appeared in the Carcanet anthology New Poetries VI, in the Penguin anthology The Poetry of Sex, in the Bloodaxe/Ledbury Festival anthology Hwaet! and also in Sophie Hannah's novel The Carrier and on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

Refreshments provided. There will be copies of Sophie Hannah and Nic Aubury's books for sale at the event.

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Event Venue

Leamington Library & Information Centre, Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom