A fitting venue for an evening of conversation on the high seas with debut author of Bonny & Read Julie Walker and award winning author Jess Kidd and her latest novel The Night Ship.

Bonny & Read: Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run – from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution, and from the destiny that fate has written for them. As their exhilarating, tumultuous exploits find fame, the ballad of Bonny and Read is sung from shore to shore – but when you swim against the tide of history, freedom is a dangerous thing…

The Night Ship: Some secrets won’t stay buried forever, and Mayken and Gil, two outsiders whose fates are inextricably intertwined, must save each other before it’s too late. An imaginative historical epic of shipwreck, mutiny, fate and friendship based on a true story.