Swindon Festival Of Literature: Two Wiltshire Writers

TWO WILTSHIRE WRITERS and two book launches! – with ELEANOR BARKER-WHITE and JILL SHARP

If your world was shattered, thanks to a broken relationship, would you use a glass die to help you make decisions? If you had lost your sense of self, what risks would you take to find your spark again? Is life a game that can be won or lost by the roll of a die?

Fascinated by the endless capacity for human resilience, short story writer and novelist Eleanor Barker-White is the author of Die Trying and lives in Wiltshire.

When a confused stranger appears in Kate’s garden shed, she can’t understand why her best friend Jamie seems reluctant to help. But gradually, they begin to discover who the stranger might be. Their effort to take him home leads Kate on a difficult and dangerous journey, from which she may not find her way back, let alone resolve the fears of her troubled new friend.

Prizewinning poet, OU tutor, and editor on a children’s magazine, Jill Sharp, who grew up climbing trees and building dens but now leads a quieter life in Swindon, is the author of The Purple Feather, a tragi-comical history time-travel mystery.