Category: Author Interviews – Young Adults
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An Audience with Guardian Prize Winning Author Alex Wheatle, MBE
In October 2023, we welcomed Alex Wheatle to speak at Bath Central Library about his novel Cane Warriors. Alex sadly passed away in 2025. Cane Warriors is based on the true story of an eighteenth-century slave uprising, centring on the teenage Moa and the decisions he must make as a ‘cane warrior’ fighting for freedom…
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Festive Interview With Luke Palmer
We’ve got poet and author Luke Palmer to answer some of our festive questions! We hope you enjoy reading them. Do you know what – this is the first time this year I’ve had a spare minute to think about that question! With three young children, I’m well aware my needs at Christmas come quite…
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Interview With Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward is a local author living in Bath, who is the writer of the bestselling YA series ‘Numbers’, the brilliant ‘Ant & Bea Mystery’ series, and standalone crime novels. We’ve been lucky enough to work with Rachel on our Murder Mystery – she’s wrote a fantastic festive mystery, which kept us guessing to the…
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Interview With Sophy Layzell
Sophy Layzell, was an author based in Somerset who was lucky to have had a childhood full of stories. Born in Laos, she was adopted into a wonderful family who prize creativity very highly. Adventures created for her by her father were the best way to start the weekend, and Tintin read aloud to her…
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Interview With Alison Goodman
When I was twelve my mother gave me my first Georgette Heyer Regency novel and I fell in love with the era and Heyer’s fabulously funny and elegant romps. The Regency is such a beloved historical era that I always thought the intense historical research needed to write about it was a bit out of…