Thriller Authors Eve Smith and Guy Morpuss in Conversation

Join speculative thriller author Eve Smith and crime fiction author Guy Morpuss in conversation about their work, and the experiences and research that inspired it.

About Eve Smith:

Eve Smith writes speculative fiction, mainly about the things that scare her.
In this world of questionable facts and news, she believes storytelling can be a powerful way to engage people in real life issues.

Longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and described by British bookshop chain Waterstones as: "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", Eve's debut novel, The Waiting Rooms, set during an antibiotic resistance crisis, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award.
It was followed by Off-Target, about a world where genetic engineering of children is routine.

Her third thriller, ONE, set in a climate-ravaged Britain, was longlisted for the Best Novel Award by the British Science Fiction Association.
Her latest novel, THE CURE, explores the catastrophic consequences of the discovery of a cure for ageing which is hijacked by obsessives who will risk anything to cheat death.

Eve's previous job took her to research projects across Asia, Africa and the Americas, and she has an ongoing passion for wild creatures, wild science and far-flung places.

About Guy Morpuss:

Guy practised as a barrister and King’s Counsel in London for thirty years, dealing with cases featuring drug-taking cyclists, dead Formula 1 champions and aspiring cemetery owners. He now writes full-time.

His debut novel, Five Minds, is about five people sharing one body, one of whom is trying to murder the others. It was a Financial Times Book of the Year and a Kindle Number 1 Bestseller in Technothrillers and Post-Apocalyptic SF. Translation rights were sold in eight territories.

For his third novel, A Trial in Three Acts, he has returned to the law, with a murder trial set in the Old Bailey.

A trial is rather like a play. We wear our costumes. We perform to the audience. And on a good day no-one gets murdered.

Six nights a week the cast of the smash-hit play Daughter of the Revolution performs to a sold-out audience. A thrilling story of forbidden marriage and a secret love child, the critics say it'll run for years. That is until one night the third act ends not in applause but in death, when leading lady Alexandra Dyce is beheaded live on stage.

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