Setting The Scene

Part of the Plymouth International Book Festival

Within a novel the landscape shapes the reader’s emotions and can complement or contradict the story. How do writers work with this extra character in a novel?

Join us as we discuss with two writers Tom Vowler and Michael Jecks how they use the landscape, and in particular the Devon landscape, in their novels.

Tom Vowler’s short story collection, The Method, won the international Scott Prize in 2010 and the Edge Hill Readers’ Award in 2011, set on Dartmoor, his debut novel What Lies Within was published in April 2013.

Michael Jecks is the author of thirty-two novels in his Templar series, all published by Headline and Simon & Schuster. Founder of the Historical Writers’ Association and Medieval Murderers, a performance group of historically fanatical crime writers, he lives on Dartmoor with his family, where he gains his inspiration from the landscape and legends of the moors.