Jess Kidd

Jess Kidd
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    • Feb 2022 – The Night Ship
    • 2 Jan, paperback release of Things in Jars and new designs for Hoarder and Himself.
    • US release of Things in Jars
    • The reviews are in
    • End of 2018 lists
    • Kidd’s ‘mould-breaking’ Victorian thriller to Canongate
  • Books
    • The Night Ship
      • The Night Ship Gallery
      • Reviews of The Night Ship
    • The Haunting Season
    • Everyday Magic
    • Things in Jars
    • The Hoarder / Mr Flood’s Last Resort
      • Mr Flood’s Gallery
    • Himself
    • Book Clubs
    • Dirty Little Fishes
  • Events
    • 9 August – Booka Bookshop, Oswestry
    • 10 August – Waterstones, Liverpool
    • 11 August – Linghams Booksellers, Heswall
    • 12 August – FANE online event
    • 16 August – Edinburgh Book Festival with Hannah Kent
    • 1 Sept – Julie Walker & Jess Kidd, London
    • 7 Sept – Marlow Bookshop
    • 13 Sept – Mr B’s Bath
    • 14 Sept – Richmond, London
    • 15 Sept – Stenyning
    • 20 Sept – Lauren Owen & Jess Kidd in Conversation, Lutyens & Rubinstein, London
    • 22 Sept – Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Jess Kidd
    • Past Events
      • Waterstones, Norwich – 29 Jan
      • Helen Cullen and Jess Kidd – 28 Jan
      • The Styning Bookshop – 23 Jan
      • Murder One Festival Dublin, Past Crimes: Jess Kidd, Henrietta McKervey and Paddy Hirsch with Declan Burke – 2 Nov
      • East Riding Festival of Words, Gothic Thrillers – 19 October
      • Liverpool Literary Festival – 12 Oct
      • John Boyne and me at the Bray Literary Festival – 28 September
      • Curious Festival – 25 August
      • Mr B’s, Bath – 9 April
      • Modern Gothic, ChipLitFest – 26 April
      • Aberdeen Performing Arts – 6 May
      • The Mainstreet Trading Company – 9 May
      • Mountains to Sea – 31 March
      • London Book Fair – 13 March
      • Yule Fest, Blackwell’s Oxford – 2 Dec
      • Golden Hare Books – Oct 23
      • Gothic Stories: Frankenstein and Beyond – 11 Oct
      • Ways With Words, Ryedale Festival – 24 July
      • Margate Bookie – My Family and Other Secrets, 29 Sept
      • Unleashing Dark Secrets – 15 August
      • Brighton Festival – 19 May
      • POWELL’S BOOKS – 6 May
      • Barnes & Noble – 5 May
      • Third Place Books – 5 May
      • BOOK PASSAGE – 4 May
      • PORTER SQUARE BOOKS – 3 May
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  • About
  • News
    • Feb 2022 – The Night Ship
    • 2 Jan, paperback release of Things in Jars and new designs for Hoarder and Himself.
    • US release of Things in Jars
    • The reviews are in
    • End of 2018 lists
    • Kidd’s ‘mould-breaking’ Victorian thriller to Canongate
  • Books
    • The Night Ship
      • The Night Ship Gallery
      • Reviews of The Night Ship
    • The Haunting Season
    • Everyday Magic
    • Things in Jars
    • The Hoarder / Mr Flood’s Last Resort
      • Mr Flood’s Gallery
    • Himself
    • Book Clubs
    • Dirty Little Fishes
  • Events
    • 9 August – Booka Bookshop, Oswestry
    • 10 August – Waterstones, Liverpool
    • 11 August – Linghams Booksellers, Heswall
    • 12 August – FANE online event
    • 16 August – Edinburgh Book Festival with Hannah Kent
    • 1 Sept – Julie Walker & Jess Kidd, London
    • 7 Sept – Marlow Bookshop
    • 13 Sept – Mr B’s Bath
    • 14 Sept – Richmond, London
    • 15 Sept – Stenyning
    • 20 Sept – Lauren Owen & Jess Kidd in Conversation, Lutyens & Rubinstein, London
    • 22 Sept – Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Jess Kidd
    • Past Events
      • Waterstones, Norwich – 29 Jan
      • Helen Cullen and Jess Kidd – 28 Jan
      • The Styning Bookshop – 23 Jan
      • Murder One Festival Dublin, Past Crimes: Jess Kidd, Henrietta McKervey and Paddy Hirsch with Declan Burke – 2 Nov
      • East Riding Festival of Words, Gothic Thrillers – 19 October
      • Liverpool Literary Festival – 12 Oct
      • John Boyne and me at the Bray Literary Festival – 28 September
      • Curious Festival – 25 August
      • Mr B’s, Bath – 9 April
      • Modern Gothic, ChipLitFest – 26 April
      • Aberdeen Performing Arts – 6 May
      • The Mainstreet Trading Company – 9 May
      • Mountains to Sea – 31 March
      • London Book Fair – 13 March
      • Yule Fest, Blackwell’s Oxford – 2 Dec
      • Golden Hare Books – Oct 23
      • Gothic Stories: Frankenstein and Beyond – 11 Oct
      • Ways With Words, Ryedale Festival – 24 July
      • Margate Bookie – My Family and Other Secrets, 29 Sept
      • Unleashing Dark Secrets – 15 August
      • Brighton Festival – 19 May
      • POWELL’S BOOKS – 6 May
      • Barnes & Noble – 5 May
      • Third Place Books – 5 May
      • BOOK PASSAGE – 4 May
      • PORTER SQUARE BOOKS – 3 May
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Things in Jars “Here she comes, my favourite character to date, Bridie Devine Victorian detective extraordinaire." JESS KIDD Things in Jars “I loved Himself and The Hoarder but this book takes things to another level – thrilling, mysterious, twisted but more than anything, beautifully written and filled to bursting point with heart." GRAHAM NORTON on Himself "I love this book... its one of those books that has you smiling as you read, and that you plan to read again very soon" Louis de Bernières Mr Flood's Last Resort "Kidd has an imagination to die for!" The Guardian The Hoarder "Kidd writes brilliantly, her skill with language John Boyne in The Irish Times and particularly with atmosphere recalling some of the great 19th-century writers of ghost stories..." The Night Ship A girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia
and, over three hundred years later, a boy finding a
home with his grandfather on the very same island....

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