April 10th — Waterstones Islington, London (in conversation with Sarah Clegg)

April 22nd — Stanford's Bristol

April 24th — East Gate Bookshop, Totnes

April 28th — Dormouse Books, Derbyshire

April 29th — Kibworth Books, Kibworth

April 30th — The Rabbit Hole, Brigg

May 1st — The Book Hive, Norwich

May 7th — Shute Festival, East Devon

Unless otherwise specified, these will be solo talks about Nicholas Jubber's new book Monsterland. In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journey to discover more about the monsters we’ve invented, lurking in the dark and the wild places of the earth — giants, dragons, ogres, zombies, ghosts, demons — all with one thing in common: their ability to terrify.

His far-ranging adventure takes him across the world. He sits on the thrones of giants in Cornwall, visits the shrine of a beheaded ogre near Kyoto, travels to an eighteenth-century Balkan vampire’s forest dwelling, and paddles among the shapeshifters of the Louisiana bayous. On his travels, he discovers that the stories of the people and places that birthed them are just as fascinating as the creatures themselves.

Artfully written, Monsterland is a spellbinding interrogation into why we need these monsters and what they can tell us about ourselves — how they bind communities together as much as they cruelly cast away outsiders.

Monsterland UK tour