An Evening with Saara El-Arifi & Jennifer Saint in Leeds!

We're thrilled to have Saara El-Arifi joining us on the 12th of March to celebrate the release of her powerful and sweeping reimagining of the iconic Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. This event will be chaired by Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne!
From one of the most remarkable and acclaimed storytellers of her generation, the #1 bestselling author of Faebound and The Final Strife, this epic and groundbreaking new novel shows us Cleopatra on her own terms.

Cleopatra:

You know my name.

But you do not know me.

Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.

Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.

Your poets sing of my blood-lust, but I was always protecting my children.

How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule.

Death will silence me no longer.

This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.

This event will consist of 45 minutes of conversation between Saara El-Arifi and Jennifer Saint, followed by 15 minutes of audience questions and then a signing.

Ticketing Information:
General Admission: £5
Book and ticket: £22
Accessibility:
- Two in store bathrooms
- An elevator for accessing the first and second floors.
- Doors open from 18:45

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