The author reveal was so exciting at the YALC instagram! I’m sharing them too and their books, so you can decide which ones you’d like to meet!
Jan Dunning
Jan Dunning was scouted by a model agency at Glastonbury Festival while studying for a degree in Fine Art and English Literature. She now lives in Bath with her family and, when she isn’t taking pictures, she works as an art teacher and writes children’s fiction. She will be there on Sunday.
Laura Bates
Laura Bates is the Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and writes regularly for the New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph and many others. She will be there on Sunday.
This afternoon Cass’s older sister will be married. Soon she will be too. Gone will be days of running through fields and feeling the earth between her toes. So when a beautiful leather-clad woman rides up and offers to take her away, Cass doesn’t hesitate to join her.
Cass is introduced to the Sisterhood of Silk Knights – a group of women training to fight and working to right the wrongs of men. Cass is drawn into a world of ancient feuds, glorious battles, and deadly intrigue, where soon discovers she holds a power that could change the destiny of her sisterhood.
Sarah Street
Sarah Street is a YA fantasy author and spends her days amid a hoard of books, playing Hozier songs to her houseplants and deciding what great body of water to write about next. She will be there on Sunday.
Bodies are washing ashore and everyone knows who’s to blame. Legends of the Heartless King shroud the continent in fear; they call him a pirate, a monster, a god. When his mercenaries raid her father’s merchant ship, Ria’s family is faced with a horrifying demand. They will spare his life, in exchange for one of his daughters.
Determined to save her sisters, Ria launches herself into the world of pirates. Face-to-face with the Heartless King, she finds he is far more than the stories told. He is a man, with a human name and blood-stained hands, bound to the seas by a centuries-old curse. As their chemistry blooms into something more, Ria finds herself caught in an ancient web of secrets.
Battling creatures of the deep alongside those that reign its surface, Ria discovers that some curses aren’t so easy to break.
Sara Barnard
Sara Barnard lives in Brighton and does all her best writing on trains. Sara believes that sad books are good for the soul, and happy books lift the heart. She hopes to write lots of books that do both. She will be there on Saturday,
To Emmy, though, she will always be her older sister, Beth, the person whose footsteps she intends to follow.
Except now she can’t. Because Beth, Emmy’s beloved sister, has died by suicide.
Forced to face a world without the guiding light of her bright, brilliant big sister, Emmy must wrestle with the impact of private grief, public scrutiny and discover who she once was and who she will become, now that Beth is gone.
Natasha Devon
Natasha Devon MBE is a writer & activist. She tours schools, colleges, universities and events throughout the world, delivering talks as well as conducting research on mental health, body image, gender and social equality. She campaigns both on and offline to make the world a fairer place. She will be there on Saturday.
So far, I’ve added 2 more books to my YALC TBR. How about you?
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