Sophie Hannah and Sam Hayes FREE

Sophie Hannah is a bestselling poet and an award-winning short story writer. Her fifth collection of poetry, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the 2007 TS Eliot Award. She regularly performs her poetry live to audiences nationwide and abroad. She won first prize in the Daphne du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her psychological suspense story The Octopus Nest. She has twice been long-listed for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel Award. Sophie lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and two children. Sophie will be reading from and talking about her latest novel Room Swept White is published in hardback on 18th March 2010.

Growing up, Sam Hayes had two dreams: to be a writer and a pilot. She begged for a typewriter at the age of ten, and learned how to fly a plane at age fifteen. In her twenties, she worked as a private investigator before travelling, marrying her Australian husband at the foot of a mountain in Queensland, and then living in Seattle for a time. She now spends her time writing, and lives with her husband and their three children near Rugby School. Her first novel, BLOOD TIES, was an international smash-hit. Sam will be talking about and reading from her new book 'TELL-TALE'.