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Your chance to meet, listen and chat to our Puffin authors. Our events guide will tell you who, what and where and when-everything you need to get out there and see your favourite Puffin authors live!
Andy Cope and Lara the Dog at Hay Festival 2012
- Event Name: Spy Dog
- Date/ Time: Saturday 2nd June, 2.30pm
- Venue: Starlight Stage
- City: Hay on Wye
- Description: Meet the inspiration behind the Spy Dog series and hear all about the thrilling adventures of her namesake (or as the highly trained special agent is known by the government: GM451)
- Age: 7+
- Price: £4.25
- Information and tickets: Hay Festival website: www.hayfestival.com
Steven Butler at Hay Festival 2012
- Event Name: The Wrong Pong
- Date/ Time: Monday 4th June, 1.00pm
- Venue: Sky Arts Studio
- City: Hay on Wye
- Description: A tale of mistaken troll-dentity from a bright new star in children's funny fiction (Shhh! He also played Henry in Horrid Henry Live and Horrid!). Delightfully disgusting.
- Age: 5+
- Price: £4.25
- Information and tickets: Hay Festival website: www.hayfestival.com
Jeremy Strong at Hay Festival 2012
- Event Name: Funny Panel
- Date/ Time: Monday 4th June, 4.00pm
- Venue: Sky Arts Studio
- City: Hay on Wye
- Description: Four fearsomely funny writers come together in a wonderfully random mish-mash look at laughs. Chaired by James Campbell.
- Age: 7+
- Price: £5.25
- Information and tickets: Hay Festival website: www.hayfestival.com
Jeremy Strong at Hay Festival 2012
- Event Name: The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog Goes for Gold!
- Date/ Time: Tuesday 5th June, 2.30pm
- Venue: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
- City: Hay on Wye
- Description: The Animal Games are coming to town, but can Streaker bring home a medal? Join this comic maestro as he introduces the sequel to his much-loved The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog.
- Age: 7+
- Price: £5.25
- Information and tickets: Hay Festival website: www.hayfestival.com
Chris Bradford at Hay Festival 2012
- Event Name: Young Samurai
- Date/ Time: Wednesday 6th June, 10.00am
- Venue: Sky Arts Studio
- City: Hay on Wye
- Description: Enter Samurai School and meet the real martial arts master behind this phenomenal series. Hear about the secret fighting art of ninjas and see an awesome samurai sword demonstration.
- Age: 9+
- Price: £5.25
- Information and tickets: Hay Festival website: www.hayfestival.com
Alex and Simon Scarrow at Hay Festival 2012
- Event Name: Roman Conquest
- Date/ Time: Friday 8th June, 10.00am
- Venue: Digital Stage
- City: Hay on Wye
- Description: Two brothers go head to head in a battle of the books - Gladiator: Streetfighter and Time Riders: Gates of Rome. They'll put your Roman knowledge to the ultimate test.
- Age: 10+
- Price: £5.25
- Information and tickets: Hay Festival website: www.hayfestival.com
Melvin Burgess at Hay Festival 2012
- Event Name: Melvin Burgess and Celia Rees
- Date/ Time: Saturday 9th June, 7.00pm
- Venue: Starlight Stage
- City: Hay on Wye
- Description: Two taut psychological dramas from the leading lights of young adult fiction. Join them to talk truth and darkness.
- Age: 13+
- Price: TBC
- Information and tickets: Hay Festival website: www.hayfestival.com
Tom Palmer - Waterstones Tour 2012
- Details: Kick off your Euro 2012 celebrations with a bang! Come and meet Tom Palmer, best-selling author of The Football Academy and Foul Play series as he tours Waterstones stores across the country in May and June to tell you all about the first book in his brand new, highly exciting series - The Squad: Black Op! The Squad are a team of teenage spies that have the perfect cover...they are also part of an England youth footbal team. They are more than a match for any kind of enemy! Tom will be visiting the following stores and holding either a penalty shoot out or table football competition! SCORE! Plus more dates to come so keep checking to see if Tom is visiting a store near you!
- Venue/ Date/ Time: Preston, Saturday 19th May, 11 - 12.30pm
- Venue/ Date/ Time: Cardiff, Saturday 2nd June, 1 - 3pm
- Venue/ Date/ Time: Doncaster, Monday 4th June, 11 - 12.30pm
- Venue/ Date/ Time: Kettering, Tuesday 5th June, 11 - 12.30pm
- Venue/ Date/ Time: St Albans, Tuesday 5th June, 3 - 4.30pm
- Venue/ Date/ Time: Plymouth, Thursday 7th June, 2 - 4pm
- Venue/ Date/ Time: Camberley, Friday 8th June, 11 - 12.30pm
- Venue/ Date/ Time: Berkhampstead, Saturday 16th June, 10 - 11am
An evening with Eoin Colfer!
- Event Name: An evening with the bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer (pronounced Owen by the way!)
- Date/ Time: Thursday 12 July 2012, 6.30PM
- Venue: Broadway Cinema, 14-18 Broad Street
- City: Nottingham
- Description: Eoin will be talking about and signing copies of ‘Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian’, the eagerly anticipated FINAL instalment in the globally bestselling Artemis Fowl series.
- Price: £5.00
- Information and tickets: Broadway Cinema Box Office 0115 9526 611 or website
