Stacey Halls

Kildare Readers Festival
2019-10-19 20:30 (Europe/London) | Riverbank Arts Centre, Main St, Piercetown, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Co. Kildare, W12 D962, Ireland
Something Wicked This Way Comes with Niamh Boyce, Stacey Halls and Martina Devlin
‘Tis the season of Samhain and the Kildare Readers’ Festival will celebrate with an exciting panel discussion examining the depiction and characterisation of witches within the canon of literature. Whether it’s horror fiction or historical non-fiction, Witches and Wiccan culture have provided rich material for authors and scholars throughout the years. On hand for a riveting discourse on the topic will be; acclaimed novelists Stacey Halls (The Familiars), Niamh Boyce (The Herbalist, Her Kind), and Martina Devlin (Three Wise Men, Be Careful What You Wish For, Venus Reborn, Temptation).

The Familiars at Gawthorpe Hall
2019-10-13 12:00 - 18:30 | Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley Road Padiham, Burnley, BB12 8UA
This event is a must for every fan of bestselling novel ‘The Familiars’, set at Gawthorpe Hall in the early 17th century.
Re-enactors will show what everyday life was like for women and men of the period. Plus, during the afternoon Stacey Halls, author of ‘The Familiars’, will be talking about her inspiration for the novel and its characters, how important Lancashire is as the setting for the story and what she is writing next. Stacey will also be available for book signings – bring your own or you can buy the newly published paperback version in the Hall shop.

Birmingham Literature Festival
2019-10-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham B3 3BS, UK, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham, B3 3BS
Litwitchure with Stacey Halls and Rebecca Tamas

Marlborough Literature Festival
2019-09-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Marlborough Town Hall, 5 High Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1AA, United Kingdom
Hiscox Debut Authors – Elizabeth Macneal and Stacey Halls
First-time authors they may be, but Elizabeth Macneal and Stacey Halls are already hot property. Publishers in Britain and abroad fought over the rights to their books and each was featured in the Observer’s “hottest tipped debut authors of 2019”.
Macneal’s The Doll Factory is set in 1850s London and tells the story of a woman who is both an artist and an artist’s model. “For me, the book is an exploration of freedom and imprisonment; what it means to be stifled and how it feels to achieve creative and literal freedom,” said Macneal.
Macneal herself is no stranger to creative freedom: in addition to writing, she is a potter, working from a studio at the bottom of her London garden.
The Familiars is also a historical work, although Halls’s novel takes place more than 200 years earlier, at the time of the Pendle witch trials, when ten people were hanged for murder by witchcraft. The 17-year-old protagonist, Fleetwood Shuttleworth, is embroiled in the trials after her midwife is accused of sorcery.
Halls, a journalist, grew up near Pendle Hill and had always had a fascination with the ‘witches’: “As I got older I realised they weren’t hunchbacked hags with cauldrons, but real people, who were poor and illiterate and served a political purpose they had no control over. I knew I wanted to write about them.
