A event on Thursday 12th March. The event starts at 19:00.
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Gloucester Road Books presents leading crime and thriller writer, Charlotte Philby, who will be discussing her new novel, Lost Girls, in conversation with author and creative writing teacher, Sanjida O'Connell.
The second book in the acclaimed Farrow and Chang series, Lost Girls sees the daughter of the Swedish Ambassador disappear from her prestigious London school in broad daylight with no witnesses and no ransom demand.
With the Metropolitan Police out of their depth, specialist agent DS Madeleine Farrow is called in to handle the case. As a former pupil at Wimpole Girls, she knows the school’s affluent corridors only too well. But even she can’t anticipate the dark secrets held within its walls.
With the clock ticking since Freya’s disappearance, Madeleine must return to a place that holds painful memories to find a girl who has left no trace. For help, she calls on dogged – and occasionally maverick – young private investigator Ramona Chang. Together the unlikely pair find themselves plunged into a world of extreme wealth and dangerous secrets.
The deeper they dig, the more they uncover – exposing a tangled web of conspiracy and lies that could change everything they thought they knew about the case, and each other.
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Praise for the first Farrow and Chang novel, Dirty Money:
'Dirty Money is one of those rare books that has it all - fantastic, realistic characters, a good plot and absolutely beautiful writing' ― Sunday Independent
'Features a winning duo in DS Madeleine Farrow and Ramona Chang' ― Sunday Times
'A dazzling crime story' ― Woman's Own
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Charlotte Philby is a critically acclaimed author, journalist and screenwriter. She started her career as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist at the Independent, where she was shortlisted for the Cudlipp Prize for investigative reporting, and worked as a contributing editor and features writer at Marie Claire. Charlotte is currently adapting one of her novels for film with the support of the BFI. Lost Girls is her seventh novel and the second book in the Farrow & Chang series. She was born in London and lives with her family in Bristol.
Dr Sanjida O'Connell is the author of eight novels and four non-fiction books. She has been shortlisted for numerous awards including BBC Asia Award, the Betty Trask Award, the Daily Telegraph Science Writer’s Award, Asian Woman of the Year, a Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and won a CWA Short Story Dagger in 2024. She has short stories forthcoming in two anthologies from Comma Press and her own short story collection, Dark Nature, will be published in 2027. She previously worked as a wildlife presenter for the BBC and was an environmental features writer and columnist for national newspapers and magazines.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Gloucester Road Books presents leading crime and thriller writer, Charlotte Philby, who will be discussing her new novel, Lost Girls, in conversation with author and creative writing teacher, Sanjida O'Connell.
The second book in the acclaimed Farrow and Chang series, Lost Girls sees the daughter of the Swedish Ambassador disappear from her prestigious London school in broad daylight with no witnesses and no ransom demand.
With the Metropolitan Police out of their depth, specialist agent DS Madeleine Farrow is called in to handle the case. As a former pupil at Wimpole Girls, she knows the school’s affluent corridors only too well. But even she can’t anticipate the dark secrets held within its walls.
With the clock ticking since Freya’s disappearance, Madeleine must return to a place that holds painful memories to find a girl who has left no trace. For help, she calls on dogged – and occasionally maverick – young private investigator Ramona Chang. Together the unlikely pair find themselves plunged into a world of extreme wealth and dangerous secrets.
The deeper they dig, the more they uncover – exposing a tangled web of conspiracy and lies that could change everything they thought they knew about the case, and each other.
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Praise for the first Farrow and Chang novel, Dirty Money:
'Dirty Money is one of those rare books that has it all - fantastic, realistic characters, a good plot and absolutely beautiful writing' ― Sunday Independent
'Features a winning duo in DS Madeleine Farrow and Ramona Chang' ― Sunday Times
'A dazzling crime story' ― Woman's Own
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Charlotte Philby is a critically acclaimed author, journalist and screenwriter. She started her career as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist at the Independent, where she was shortlisted for the Cudlipp Prize for investigative reporting, and worked as a contributing editor and features writer at Marie Claire. Charlotte is currently adapting one of her novels for film with the support of the BFI. Lost Girls is her seventh novel and the second book in the Farrow & Chang series. She was born in London and lives with her family in Bristol.
Dr Sanjida O'Connell is the author of eight novels and four non-fiction books. She has been shortlisted for numerous awards including BBC Asia Award, the Betty Trask Award, the Daily Telegraph Science Writer’s Award, Asian Woman of the Year, a Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and won a CWA Short Story Dagger in 2024. She has short stories forthcoming in two anthologies from Comma Press and her own short story collection, Dark Nature, will be published in 2027. She previously worked as a wildlife presenter for the BBC and was an environmental features writer and columnist for national newspapers and magazines.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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