Author Jane McLoughlin was born in Minnesota and had lived in several parts of the USA before she met her future husband in the fantastic city of San Francisco. Very luckily for us she followed her husband to the UK. And now over 20 years later, she is still here, living with her family on the south coast of England.

Jane will joining us on the 11th July and will be available to sign copies of her debut teenage fiction novel At Yellow Lake after the awards.

At Yellow Lake: Etta, Peter and Jonah all find themselves at a cabin by the shore of Yellow Lake, and flung together in the terrifying series of events that follows. Jonah has come to Yellow Lake to try to get in touch with his Ojibwe roots. Peter is there to bury a lock of his mother’s hair – her final request. Etta is on the run from her mother’s creepy boyfriend, Kyle, and his dodgy friends. But as the three take shelter in the cabin, finding surprising solace in each other’s company, they soon realise that they have inadvertently stumbled onto the scene of a horrifying crime, and Kyle and his cronies have no intention of letting them escape.