An Evening with Lisa Jewell in Conversation with Jo Callaghan - Birmingham

Please note this event is starting slightly earlier than previously advertised, and is now opening doors 6pm for start time 6.30pm.

Join us for a thrilling evening with Sunday Times bestselling author, Lisa Jewell, discussing her latest novel ‘Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring fan-favourite characters like Luke Cage and Daredevil. Lisa will be in conversation with Jo Callaghan, bestselling author of ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ and ‘Leave No Trace’.

About the Book

Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired superhero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner.And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them.To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas?Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a "better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people?

About the Author

Lisa Jewell’s first novel, ‘Ralph’s Party’, was published in 1999 and was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she has published another twenty-one novels, most lately a number of dark psychological thrillers, including ‘Then She Was Gone’, ‘The Family Upstairs’ and ‘None of This is True’. Lisa is a number one New York Times and Sunday Times author who has sold over ten million books worldwide and been published in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two daughters and a lovely dog called Daisy.

Reviews

“The pace doesn’t let up, the characters never once slip. Tricksy, endlessly interesting and pure entertainment, don’t miss this one.” - Gillian McAllister

“Fresh, lively, insightful—and the action scenes hit like a chop. A really cracking story.” - AJ Finn“

Reveals the depth and complexity of one of the most fascinating and indomitable characters in the Marvel canon.” - S. A. Cosby

Age restriction 14+. All under 25s may require government-issued photo ID to gain entry. Under 16s must carry photo ID and be accompanied by an adult with a ticket to the show at all times (see FAQs)

Host or Publisher Waterstones