Read in Entertainers

Planning a read-in has been an experience! It has been lovely seeing the support from so many people for the library. For everyone who has agreed to attend so far there are others who can't but have emailed many kind words.
Here is the list of entertainment confirmed so far (although this will probably be subject to change over the coming days) In honour of the library setting this list is in alphabetical order!

• Sophia Bennett (author of the popular teen series Threads which won The Times/ Chicken House Children's Fiction competition.)
• Rebecca Elliot (author and illustrator whose book 'Just Because' is currently nominated for the People's Book Prize and the NASEN children's book award)
• Emmy The Great (great singer-songwriter)
• Caroline Lawrence (bestselling children's author who will be giving a sneak peek at her new series 'Western Mysteries' and giving away copies of her old Roman Mysteries)
• Nadifa Mohamed (author of Black Mamba Boy - winner of the Betty Trask award and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Guardian First Book Award)
• Nikesh Shukla (poet, filmmaker and author of Coconut Unlimited- nominated for the Costa First Novel Award.)
• Swiss ( author and musician (So Solid Crew))
• Tim Ten Yen- (singer-songwriter)
• Sam West (Actor and Director)
• Eley Williams (author)