Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and bestselling author. Her debut, The Girl of Ink & Stars, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 and the British Book Award’s Children’s Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Jhalak Prize, the Branford Boase Award and the Little Rebels Prize. Her second novel The Island at the End of Everything was released in April 2017, and has been shortlisted for both the Costa Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards.

Kiran’s new book, The Way Past Winter, is due to be released in October.

Kiran lives by the river in Oxford with her husband, Tom, and their cat, Luna.

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Doors 10.45am, start time 11am.

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