Salisbury Literary Festival 2018
October 20, 2018, 18.15 at Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury
Piers Torday originally worked in theatre and television before writing his first children’s book, The Last Wildwhich was published in 2013. It was nominated for the Carnegie Award, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the UKLA Award, and won both Stockton Children’s Book of the Year and Calderdale Children’s Book of the Year. The sequel, The Dark Wild, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and the final book in the series, The Wild Beyond, was shortlisted for Islington Book of the Year.
His fourth book for children, There May Be A Castle was published in 2017 and was a Children’s Book of the Year in The Times. He will be talking about The Lost Magician, his new book published this September, set in and around Salisbury.