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Schools Events - Book Shop
SCHOOLS EVENTS
ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE
Tuesday 7th October 2025
CULFORD SCHOOL
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
ST BENEDICT'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL
Award-winning novelist Dr. Ashley Hickson-Lovence invites us into fourteen-year-old music-lover Ronny’s life in his multi-award winning novel WILD EAST. We follow Ronny as his mum decides they’re moving out of London following the traumatic death of his best friend, Maz. In East Anglia, as a Black teenager in a mostly white school, Ronny feels like a complete outsider.
Ashley will take students on an evocative journey through WILD EAST and uses it to facilitate the writing of personal and powerful poems that draw on your own unique life stories.
SCHOOLS EVENTS BOOKS SPECIAL OFFER
Bury St Edmunds is offering students the opportunity to buy a signed and dedicated copy of Ashley's Award Winning Novel Wild East for 20% off RRP.
Books will be delivered to the school on the day of Ashley's visit.
Books must be ordered by 6pm on Monday 29th October to take advantage of this special offer.
SERENA PATEL
Monday 13th October 2025
TOLLGATE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Serena Patel is the author of the Anisha, Accidental Detective series which has won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award, The Week Junior Book Award and the Crimefest Best Novel for Children. She lives in the West Midlands with her family and believes all children deserve to feel seen in the stories they read and that books are an important tool for empathy.
Author Serena Patel joins us to talk about her new book Pia's Pet Club. She will introduce you to Pia, a girl who loves pets, but isn't allowed one of her own! She will test your pet-based knowledge with a PAWesome quiz (do you know what percentage of the time cats spend sleeping?) and you’ll get the chance to create your own pet story character!
SCHOOLS EVENTS BOOKS SPECIAL OFFER
Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival is offering students the opportunity to buy a signed and dedicated copy of Serena's most recent novel Pia's Pet Club for 20% off RRP.
Books will be delivered to the school on the day of Serena's visit.
Books must be ordered by 6pm on Monday 29th October to take advantage of this special offer.
Events for Children & Young People
At a time when reading is at an all time low, particularly for children, part of Bury St Edmunds Literature festival's mission is to encourage reading for pleasure by making all events free for Under 18s!
Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult but for our events programmed with children and young people in mind, their accompanying adults are only £2.50 or FREE when pre-ordering book.
To make it even sweeter, and to make sure that not a single ticket to our kids events goes to waste, anyone who books an accompanying adult ticket to any of our children's events can add a ticket to an any author event worth £10 for FREE! Saving up to £7.50!
This offer is only available until we sell out - so act quick!!
Simply make a selection from our events for children below, then head to our Main Box Office to select your free ticket! And the offer will be automatically added at checkout.
