Library event Southwold Literary Festival: Author Talk with Scarlett Thomas
Join us for an author talk with contemporary cult novelist Scarlett Thomas.
- Date
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Sun 15 Nov 2026
- Laikas
- 15:30 – 16:30
- Place
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Southwold Arts Centre, Cumberland Road, Southwold, IP18 6JP
About this event
Join us for an author talk with contemporary cult novelist Scarlett Thomas at Southwold Arts Centre as part of Southwold Literary Festival! Scarlett will be talking to us about her latest book The Runner.
Tickets are £7.55 each. Tickets can be booked at Southwold Library, either in person, by phone 01502 442817 arba online on TicketSource.
About Scarlett Thomas:
Scarlett Thomas was born in London. She is the author of highly acclaimed contemporary cult novels including The End of Mr. Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; Oligarchy; The Seed Collectors; PopCo; The Sleepwalkers; and the Worldquake series of middle grade books.
Her novels have sold over half a million copies worldwide & been translated into 26 languages. Scarlett is professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Kent.
Apie The Runner:
On a sun-soaked Greek island, Jay is on the run. He’s been hunted since he was 20 years old: a contract on his life traded like a commodity, rising and falling with the price of Bitcoin. Stranded with no passport, loyalty points as his only currency and an assassin in hot pursuit, Jay’s only hope is to escape on a catamaran with a crew on their way to perform an exorcism on a dictator’s private island.
When it becomes clear that his shipmates are even more dubious than they first seemed, Jay has to run again – this time into the arms of the beautiful Ellie, who is either his doom or his salvation.
Caught in a web of high-finance, con-artists, the Book of Jonah and ultramarathons, Jay will have to choose between love and survival and run for his life!
Southwold Literary Festival is a partnership between Southwold Library, Southwold Arts Centre and Southwold Books. All events take place at Southwold Arts Centre in St Edmund’s Hall.
Dates and times
- Laikas
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15:30 – 16:30
- Sun 15 Nov 2026
Booking information
Tickets can be booked at Southwold Library, either in person, by phone 01502 442817 or by visiting the Southwold Library TicketSource page.
Tickets can also be booked at Southwold Arts Centre, either in person or by phoning 01502 722572.
Prieinamumas
- Wheelchair accessible
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