Event: Harry Whittaker in conversation with Kate Sawyer
Wednesday 18th November | 7pm (doors open 6:45pm) | Maldon United Reformed Church
General Admission £7
Book + Ticket Combo £30
Book signing to follow event!
Nearest car parks: No parking on site, nearest car parks are Butt Lane Car Park/White Horse Lane Car Park
We are so pleased to welcome Harry Whittaker, co-author of the instant No. 1 international bestseller ‘Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt,’ to Maldon this November! Harry will be chatting to author Kate Sawyer all things ‘Orlando,’ an epic mystery set in the world of the Seven Sisters.
Both Harry and Kate will be signing books at the end of the event. We’ll have copies of ‘Orlando’ and the Seven Sisters series available at our book stall, as well as Kate’s books, though you’re able to preorder a copy of ‘Orlando’ with your ticket (Book + Ticket Combo £30)
If you would like a signed copy but aren’t able to make the event, please contact us at maldonbooksltd@gmail.com
About Orlando
Reader-favourite antiquarian bookseller Orlando Forbes – first introduced in The Shadow Sister – returns in this dual-timeline saga.
When Orlando uncovers a hidden cache of manuscripts in an old Harrow rectory, his investigation draws us deeper into the private longings and unresolved fractures of the character’s own life. Across dual timelines, his search for the truth about a forgotten Victorian author becomes a mirror to his own story, revealing buried betrayals, guarded hearts, and the courage it takes, in any century, to claim your true name. Expect exciting appearances from beloved Seven Sisters characters, and discover how their lives have been shaped following the events of Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt.
About Harry Whittaker
Harry Whittaker grew up in the 1990s and spent the first few years of his life on the rural west coast of Ireland. The son of the author Lucinda Riley, Harry became a storyteller himself, as an award-winning radio presenter for the BBC and a member of one of the UK’s most renowned improv troupes. In 2019, Harry and Lucinda co-authored the Guardian Angels series for children – four reassuring, timeless stories addressing worries that a small child may have.
After Lucinda’s death in 2021, it was announced that Harry would complete the Seven Sisters series on behalf of his late mother. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt publishes globally in May 2023.
Harry lives in Yorkshire, England with his wife and newborn twin girls.
About Kate Sawyer
Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before writing several short films then turning her hand to fiction.
Her second novel This Family was a Waterstones Book Of The Month and Paperback of the Year. Her debut, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian Book Award for fiction, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for the screen. Her third novel Getting Away will be released in July 2025 and has already been selected as a Bookseller Pick of The Month for July.
From 2022-20024 Kate produced and recorded 60+ episodes of her podcast Novel Experience, where she talks to other novelists about their writing practices and the experiences that led them to being published. She is a regular guest lecturer in creative writing at Suffolk University and Suffolk One and Abbeygate Sixth Form Colleges.
Kate is the programme curator and producer of the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival, in the Suffolk town she grew up in and returned to after the birth of her daughter.
