An Evening with Holly Bourne & Gillian McAllister - Birmingham

Join us for a brilliant evening with bestselling authors Holly Bourne and Gillian McAllister, who will be discussing their brilliant new novels with Emma Conway. 

Holly Bourne's So Thrilled For You is an incredible conversation-starting new novel from the author of Spinster Club series and How Do You Like Me Now?; the book you'll want to read three times, then give to every woman in your life. Thriller powerhouse Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place Wrong Time, returns with Famous Last Words: another nerve-shredding mystery with twists that will have you on the edge of your seat

About So Thrilled For You

An intense heatwave. A high-stakes baby shower. Will it all end in tears?

The Little Women: Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi. Friends since university, they are now in their thirties and life is pulling them in different directions. Until a baby shower invite arrives.

Reunited on a sweltering hot summer’s day, tensions rise quickly as the friendship group reveal what is pulling them all apart.

STEFFI: powerhouse literary agent who is happily child-free but feeling judged by her friends CHARLOTTE: desperate to conceive yet intent on organising the ‘perfect’ baby shower for her friend LAUREN: who is finding motherhood far, far worse than she imagined NICKI: who never wanted a baby shower and is holding onto secrets from the past.

Can their friendship survive the high-pressure event and the subsequent police investigation, as a fire starts?

About Famous Last Words

It’s Camilla’s first day back at work, her daughter’s first day at nursery.

But husband Luke is nowhere to be seen. The only trace of him is an unfinished note. Camilla tries to put it out of her mind; there must be a rational explanation.

At work, there are welcomes back, and too many distractions.

Then it starts.

Breaking news: there's a hostage situation developing in
London.

The police arrive: Luke is caught up in it.

But he isn't a hostage. Luke - doting father, successful writer, enthusiastic runner and eternal optimist - is the gunman.

What Camilla does next is crucial. Because only she knows what the note he left behind says, and the clues it might hold . . .