An Evening with Kell Woods: Upon a Starlit Tide

Join us for an evening with Kell Woods as she chats about her new historical fantasy book, Upon a Starlit Tide, a dark and enchanting fairy tale, combining elements of "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella" into a wholly original tale of love, power, and betrayal. She will be in conversation with fellow author, Kate Forsyth. There will be opportunities for questions from the audience followed by a book signing.

6:30pm arrivals for a 7pm start.


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About the book:
Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758. To Lucinde Leon, the youngest daughter of a wealthy French shipowner, the high walls of Saint-Malo are more hindrance than haven.

While her sisters are busy trying to secure advantageous marriages, Luce spends her days secretly being taught to sail by Samuel, her best friend - and an English smuggler. Only he understands how the waves call to her. Then one stormy morning, Luce rescues a drowning man from the sea.

Immediately drawn in by the stranger's charm, Luce is plunged into a world of glittering balls and faerie magic, seduction and brutality. Secrets that have long been lost in the shadowy depths of the ocean begin to rise to the surface, but as Luce wrestles with warring desires, she finds that her own power is growing brighter and brighter, shining like a sea-glass slipper... or the scales of a sea-maid's tail.


About the authors:
Kell Woods is an Australian historical fantasy author and author of the Sunday Times bestseller After the Forest. She has studied English literature, creative writing, and librarianship, and writes about made-up (and not so made-up) places, people and things you might remember from the fairy tales you read as a child. Kell lives near the sea with her husband, two sons, and a kitten named Juniper.

Kate Forsyth is an award -winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent novels include Psykhe, a retelling of the myth of Psyche and Eros and The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of ‘The Minotaur in the Labyrinth’ myth set in Crete during the Nazi invasion and occupation of World War II.

Other historical novels include Beauty in Thorns, a reimagining of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ told in the voices of four women of the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists and poets; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales which was named Most Memorable Love Story of 2013; and Bitter Greens, a reinvention of ‘Rapunzel’ which won the 2015 American Library Association award for Best Historical Fiction.