Newark Book Festival - John Connolly Talk & Signing

Join us to welcome John Connolly with The Land of Lost Things to a very special evening on Wednesday 13th September at Newark Library at 7pm-8pm plus signings.

Tickets are £6 / £4 for Festival Friends - Book your tickets here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/newark-book-festival/t-eaqepay?

Twice upon a time — for that is how some stories should continue . . .

Seventeen years ago award-winning crime writer John Connolly wrote a rather special stand-alone novel called The Book of Lost Things, a wonderfully dark and moving fairy tale of loss, parenthood and the place of books and stories in our lives, which became a globally best-selling success with a committed fan following.

Now with The Land of Lost Things, John returns to that world. This book is not just for the fans, but is a stand-alone in its own right for anyone who enjoys dark, beautifully-written fables that explore the heart of the human condition: love, loyalty and sacrifice.

Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. An old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey — to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father; to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting.To the Land of Lost Things. Is this just a terrifying dream, or a way for Ceres to recover her daughter? And what sacrifices will a mother make in order to be reunited with her child?

John Connolly is the author of the Charlie Parker crime series, along with many other stand-alones and series for adults, plus YA and children's titles. He is a multiple time Sunday Times bestselling author and has sold more that eight million books in English alone. John writes regularly for newspapers, hosts a radio show on RTE and divides his time between Dublin and Portland, Maine.