Train Man – Turning Things Around

Andy Mulligan: Adult Novelist

1.30pm, Bayley Room, £6.50

Best known for his young adult fiction – and Trash in particular – Andy is a prolific author, writing radio plays and screenplays as well as prose fiction. He has won The Guardian Children’s prize, and has been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. His books have been translated into thirty-two languages, and his first adult novel Train Man was published earlier this month. It tells the seemingly sad, and even morbid story of a man on his way to commit suicide. Convinced that life can only get worse, why not end it all on the tracks at Crewe? Andy will be reading from the book and discussing how it came to be written.