Sleepers in the Snow: An evening with Joanne Harris

Out on the moor, in the snow, a house stands beneath a pylon.

It is a house full of memories, and full of old things. And, in the dark, when the pylon sings in the wind, it is a house full of ghosts and fading memories…

The house, Kirkhill, has a new occupant - just moved in, fresh from a bitter divorce and looking for a fresh start. The moor is the perfect place for it: isolated, beautiful in the changing seasons, peaceful, and with just enough of the previous owners belongings that it's a perfectly self-contained and cosy home.

Only as the nights start to draw in, and the weather takes a turn, so does the house. The cosy isolation becomes menacing, animals begin acting strangely, and it seems someone could be watching the house…and the diaries of the previous owners begin to reveal a terrible tragedy which befell Kirkhill - one which its new occupant may be unable to escape…

Hosted by Jenny Knight.

The event will be followed by book sales and a signing with the author and host.

Tickets: £10

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) is the author of twenty novels, three cookbooks and many short stories. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, was Chair of the Society of Authors between 2020 and 2024, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.

Hosted by Jenny Knight

Jenny Knight is a prize-winning writer of short story, fiction and memoir, and was a contributor to Kit de Waal’s celebrated Common People anthology. Jenny has worked extensively as a copywriter, editor, and developmental editor, taught creative writing in prisons, worked with storytellers and actors for the UN and Comic Relief in Somalia and Kenya, chaired and spoken on panels, and held workshops about writing, rejection, and resilience. She has a degree in English Lit & Drama, and studied further in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She has also worked on farms, in pubs and factories, as an actor and a roadie, in the music industry and local radio, and has renovated a former pigsty.

Her debut novel Wild Moon Rising is out now.

Banner photo by Jennifer Robertson at Kyte Photography.