House of YA Thriller Road Trip - Birmingham

Join us for a THRILLING evening with masters of YA fiction, Jennifer Niven, Kika Hatzopoulou, and Cynthia Murphy, in conversation with Bill Wood, discussing what inspires them, their writing processes, and everything they love about writing thrillers!
Jennifer Niven is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of All the Bright Places, Holding Up the Universe and Breathless. When We Were Monsters is a page-turning, deliciously dark and romantic thriller set at an exclusive writers’ retreat whose eight students, each with secrets of their own, are plunged into an all-consuming game of risk and betrayal.

Kika Hatzopoulou is the bestselling and award-winning author of Threads That Bind and Hearts That Cut. She is a native Greek and current Londoner and holds an MFA in writing for children from the New School. In her free time, she enjoys urban quests and gastronomical adventures while narrating entire book and movie plots with her partner. Moth Dark is a sensual, hypnotic romantasy featuring a girl obsessed with the dark and the genderfluid elf prince on a mission to K*ll her.
Cynthia Murphy is the bestselling author of the BookTok sensation Win Lose K*ll Die. She has a long-standing love affair with all things scary, reading Point Horrors before graduating to Stephen King in her misguided teens! Keep Your Friends Close is an explosive dark academia about a mysterious book that details the murders of Morton Academy's secret society members. Can Chloe get to the bottom of this twisted game before she’s next on the killer’s hit list...?
They will be in conversation with bestselling YA author Bill Wood. His debut novel, Let's Split Up was an instant top 10 bestseller and the fastest selling YA debut of 2024 in the UK. The deliciously dark sequel, Be Right Back, is ideal for fans of slasher movies, and will release on October 9th 2025.

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