Jennie Godfrey & Andrev Walden

Advance tickets for this event are now available for MLF Get Closer Members to buy. Memberships start at £25 per year - for full details of membership benefits and buying options click HERE. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday 14 August at 10am.

See debut authors Jennie Godfrey and Andrev Walden discuss their brilliant, best-selling novels, The List of Suspicious Things and Bloody Awful in Different Ways, at this intimate event. From 1980s Yorkshire to 1980s Sweden, both novels offer rich portraits of communities seen through the eyes of unforgettable young narrators, navigating secrets, shifting relationships and growing up in a changing world.

A Sunday Times bestseller, Jennie Godfrey’s The List of Suspicious Things follows 12-year-old Miv and her best friend Sharon as they investigate a string of disappearances in their Yorkshire neighbourhood.

Andrev Walden’s vivid and tender coming-of-age story, Bloody Awful in Different Ways (translated by Ian Giles), follows young Andrev as he grows up surrounded by a rotating cast of ‘fathers’ - seven in seven years. His debut novel was winner of the prestigious August Prize and a runaway bestseller in Sweden.

Supported by the Swedish Arts Council in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden, UK, as part of the Stories From Sweden programme.

Wheelchair Users and those with other access needs requiring a free Essential Carer ticket should contact the Quaytickets Box Office on 0161 876 2015 to purchase tickets.