Rosie Andrews and Bridget Collins

We are very excited to welcome back Rosie Andrews, bestselling author of The Leviathan, and to welcome Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding, to discuss their new novels: The Puzzle Wood and The Silence Factory.

The Puzzle Wood is a richly layered Gothic mystery, full of dark secrets and myths.

Deep in the woods, something is stirring... When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a position as
governess at remote Locksley Abbey in the foothills of the Black Mountains, she is apprehensive.

It is not the echoing, near empty house with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the Abbey or even the dogs that the owner, Sir Rowland, encourages to stalk the grounds, baying for blood. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny: her reference and very identity are fraudulent. She is travelling in disguise to investigate the fate of the last governess at the house, who took her own life out in the woods.

In this extraordinary follow up to the bestselling The Leviathan, an isolated forest becomes the unsettling, beguiling backdrop to a tale of myths, memory and murder...

The Silence Factory is an enthralling story about complicity, desire and corruption - a novel to lose yourself in.

Henry dreams of silence.

A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock.

Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. Precious silk that can drown out the clamour of the world - and everything Henry is so desperate to escape. He allows himself to fall under the spell of Sir Edward and his silk... but when he learns its true cost, will it be too late to turn back?

Rosie Andrews' debut novel, The Leviathan, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, going on to become one of the bestselling debut hardbacks of 2022, and has been shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction.

Bridget Collins is the bestselling author of The Binding and The Betrayals. She is also the author of seven acclaimed books for young adults, and has had two plays produced, one at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Signed copies of both The Puzzle Wood and The Silence Factory will be available at the event, and the Early Bird price can be redeemed against either. To purchase at time of booking, please select "standard admission" to include a copy of The Puzzle Wood and "includes book" to include a copy of The Silence Factory.