ADRIFT: Will Dean in conversation with Neil McRobert
Schedule
Thu Feb 19 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Blackwell's Bookshop | Manchester, EN
About this Event
We are thrilled to welcome Will Dean back to Blackwell's on Thursday 19th February to discuss his latest novel Adrift; a high-tension thriller about a family's descent into darkness. Will Dean will be conversation with Neil McRobert, host of the podcast Talking Scared and author of Good Boy.
Doors: 6.30pm. Start: 6.45pm.
Tickets are £5 or free when purchasing a Book & Ticket option, either online or instore ahead of the event.
About ADRIFT:
Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She works as a local librarian and he is a schoolboy. Together, they battle against the hardness and manipulation of the man they live with. To the outside world he is a husband and father. To them, he is a captor.
Their lives are tightly controlled; if any perceived threat appears, their mooring is moved further down the canal, further away from civilisation. Until the day when the power suddenly shifts, and nothing can be the same again.
About the author:
Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands and had lived in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying Law at the LSE and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a house in a boggy clearing at the centre of a vast elk forest, and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes.
His debut novel in the Tuva Moodyson series, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball’s Book Club, shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize and named a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Red Snow was published in January 2019 and won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards, 2019. Black River was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Award in 2021. Will also writes standalone thrillers: The Last Thing to Burn, First Born, the top twenty hardback bestseller The Last Passenger and One at a Time.
If you cannot make the event but would like a dedicated copy of the book, please email [email protected] or call us on 0161 274 3331.
Our event format is usually a 45 minute discussion between the author and interviewer, followed by a chance for audience members to ask questions. There will be the opportunity to get your book signed/dedicated after the event. Events are a brilliant opportunity to discover new books, meet authors and likeminded readers and learn something new.
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Where is it happening?
Blackwell's Bookshop, 146 Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 5.00 to GBP 22.00
