Helm: Sarah Hall in conversation with Sarah Perry

Programmed by National Centre for Writing

The award-winning author presents her elemental new novel, Helm: the story of a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and wonder — that has blasted since the dawn of time. Hall will be joined by Sarah Perry for an evening of powerful storytelling that examines the relationship between nature and people.

This event is followed by book sales and signing with The Book Hive.

Tickets: £12

Sarah Hall

A two-time Man Booker Prize nominee, Sarah Hall is the award-winning author of six novels and three short-story collections. Notably, she is the only author to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice - first in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' and again in 2020 with 'The Grotesques'.

Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. Enlightenment was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and her other work has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.