# Event Details - **Event Name**: Will Maclean, Lucie McKnight Hardy & Dan Coxon in conversation - Islington - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Join us with Will Maclean, Lucie McKnight Hardy and Dan Coxon to discuss their latest books.About this EventJoin us with Will Maclean, Lucie McKnight Hardy and Dan Coxon to discuss their latest books, Solace House, Night Babies and Come Sing For The Harrowing.SOLACE HOUSEWhen Alex Lane, at the end of the University summer term, broke and without any plans, is offered the chance to join a group of students tasked clearing out Solace House, a large Victorian residence left to the University by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne, he jumps at it.As the students sort through the detritus, one of Alex's companions becomes increasingly obsessed with the hidden secrets of Solace House, Flayne's missing mother, and the possibility that, if only they can decipher Flayne's increasingly unintelligible writings, they might gain knowledge beyond their wildest dreams.NIGHT BABIESWhen Astrid and her partner Kit's house is flooded her best friend Flora invites her to stay in a run-down chapel in the Brecon Beacons.As the weeks go by, tensions simmer between Astrid and Flora as sour memories flare up from their teenage past, and her relationship with Kit begins to fray as the chapel and the surrounding hostile beauty of the valley begin to intrude on their lives.Astrid throws herself into her work butas the darkness of the Welsh valley closes in on her, will she be able to run from the looming horror or be consumed by it?COME SING FOR THE HARROWINGA young man working at a tourist attraction is singled out for unholy transformation, a gang of burglars are ambushed with something unworldly when they attempt to rob a local farm, and a daughter seeks revenge on her abusive father after his death.Weaving macabre contingencies into realities, Dan Coxon crafts unsettling and eerie worlds through hauntingly literary prose. Come Sing for the Harrowing will haunt your dreams and gnaw at you during the daylight.Will Maclean is a screenwriter who has worked with people as varied as Alexander Armstrong, Miranda Hart, Al Murray and Tracey Ullman. His first novel, The Apparition Phase (2020), was shortlisted for The McKitterick Prize. He is the co-creator and co-presenter of the podcast Broken Veil, which was nominated for a 2025 Independent Podcast Award.Lucie McKnight Hardy is the author of Water Shall Refuse Them, which was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award and the short story collection, Dead Relatives. Both were picked as Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month.Lucie grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker. She has also lived in Liverpool, Cardiff, Zurich and Bradford, and now lives in Hay-on-Wye.Dan Coxon has won a World Fantasy Award (Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology), a Saboteur Award (Being Dad) and two British Fantasy Awards (Writing the Uncanny and Writing the Future, both co-edited with Richard V. Hirst). He has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards a total of eight times, and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards. In October 2025 his anthology of haunted house stories, Unquiet Guests, was published by Dead Ink Books. His second short story collection, Come Sing for the Harrowing, will be reissued by CLASH Books in April 2026, with a foreword by Brian Evenson. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/will-maclean-lucie-mcknight-hardy-and-dan-coxon-in-conversation-islington/100001983086794987 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Contests - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fwill-maclean-lucie-mcknight-hardy-dan-coxon-in-conversation-islington-tickets-1983086794987 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 5, max: 22, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Waterstones - **lat**: 51.5365815 - **long**: -0.1024379 - **full address**: Waterstones, 11 Islington Green, London, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Waterstones (https://allevents.in/org/waterstones/22517433) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/693946ecebc22299a218dfc02cdc678fca4e024658ddd6acd7b634888487d420-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf3f3f3-gmir.jpg?v=1774136109 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/5b4ac281113dd97b7cdc2081b20d4c04feb01193f92b0dcb57cc32c721118763-rimg-w400-h400-dcf3f3f3-gmir.jpg?v=1774136108 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? 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