Beetle Boy and Beetle Queen with M.G.Leonard and her Australian Rainbow Stag Beetles Hector and Motticilla
6+

Lowestoft

Library

26/10/2017 11:00 - 12:00

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Step into the wonderful world of beetles! Meet the award-winning author of Beetle Boy and Beetle Queen, M.G. Leonard and her remarkable Rainbow Stag Beetles, Hector and Motticilla in this interactive event. The event will be packed full of cool scientific facts, taxidermy and props.  Following the event head to our pop up bookshop to buy your signed copy of Beetle Queen.

M. G. Leonard

M. G. Leonard is an award winning, bestselling writer of books, poems and screenplays. She has a first-class honours degree in English literature from the Open University and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from Kings College London. She works as a freelance Digital Media Producer for clients such as the National Theatre, and Harry Potter West End, and previously worked as a Senior Digital Producer at the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House and Shakespeare’s Globe. She spent her early career in the music industry running Setanta Records, an independent record label, and managing bands, most notably The Divine Comedy. After leaving the music industry, she trained as an actor, dabbling in directing and producing as well as performing, before deciding to write her stories down. Maya lives in Brighton with her husband and two sons.

Beetle Boy, M. G. Leonard’s debut, was published in Spring 2016 by Chicken House in the UK, Scholastic in the US, Canada and Australia and has sold in thirty-seven territories, becoming a bestseller in the UK and the Netherlands and winning the Branford Boase Award for best debut children's novel.

Beetle Queen, the second part of the trilogy, was published in April 2017 in the UK to critical acclaim.

Battle of the Beetles, the third part of the trilogy, will be published in spring 2018.

 

Children's Literature