Where the Shadows Linger: Folklore and the Dark Woods

In-conversation event with Melinda Salisbury, Kim Curran and Georgia Leighton at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore!
About this Event

The £10 ticket can be redeemed against a purhcase of any spotlight book during the event.

Melinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie nominated and bestselling author of multiple teen and young adult novels, including the Sin Eater's Daughter series, Hold Back the Tide, and Her Dark Wings, a Guardian Children's Book of the Year 2022 and a Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick. Her debut teen novel, EchoStar, a tech thriller aimed at 12–14-year-olds, was published in March 2024 by Barrington Stoke, with AdelAIDE following in August 2024 and The Foundation in January 2025.

Her first novel, The Sin Eater's Daughter, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Branford Boase, the Edgar Awards, the 2016 and 2019, 2021 and 2023 Carnegie medals, YALSA Best YA 2022, Eason's YA Book of the Month, and more. Her books have been published in sixteen countries to date.

When not writing, Melinda works as a writing mentor and development editor, and volunteers at a local independent cinema on the East Sussex Coast. Her agents are Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency, London, and Pete Knapp at Park, Fine and Brower Literary and Media, New York.

Kim Curran was born in Dublin and moved to London when she was seven. She got her first typewriter when she was eight, had a poem she wrote about a snail published in a magazine when she was nine, and that was it – Kim was hooked on writing.

Because she never thought she’d actually be able to make a living as a writer, she decided she needed a trade to fall back on. So, naturally, she went to Sussex University to study philosophy.

While Kim’s plan of being paid big bucks to think deep thoughts never quite worked out, she did land a job as a junior copywriter with an ad agency a week after graduating. She’s worked in advertising ever since, specialising in writing for videogames.

Georgia Leighton is a Sunday Times bestselling author living in London with her family. Her novel, SPELLBOUND, is a reimagining of the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, and her brand new novel, MAIDEN, is a captivating, feminist retelling of the legend of St George and the Dragon.