On Sunday 14 May 2023 from 9.30am-11.30am. Barnet Libraries Literary Festival 2023 welcomes:
A morning with award winning author Tanya Landman in conversation with Miriam Halahmy discussing her stunning books The Battle of Cable Street and Lightning Strike. Including a 15-20mins Q&A and book signing session.
There will be a bookseller in attendance and Tanya & Miriam will be on hand to sign purchased books.
This event is suitable for ages 9-12yrs, teenagers & adults.
Booking a ticket is essential.
Carnegie Medal winning Tanya Landman is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults. Born and brought up in Gravesend, Kent, Tanya had no intention of becoming a writer until the idea for Waking Merlin popped into her head.
Tanya's first books were adventure stories with a sprinkling of magic and spoonful of humour. But then Tanya turned to crime, writing Mondays are Murder (winner of a Red House Book Award) the first in a series of ten Agatha Christie’s for kids.
Although she writes across a broad age range, Tanya is best known for her historical thrillers for young adults. Apache was shortlisted for several UK awards and the US edition won a Borders Original Voices prize and a Spur award from the Western Writers of America. Buffalo Soldier won the 2015 Carnegie Medal.
During the Covid lockdowns feeling both enraged and helpless she looked to the East End of London for inspiration and wrote Lightning Strike (inspired by the Matchgirls’ strike of 1888) and The Battle of Cable Street is her latest books.
