Description

There will be a discussion with Danielle, a chance for a Q&A, and an opportunity to get your books signed. We will also be selling copies of the authors works on the night.

About If My Words Had Wings

When Tyrell Forrester gets caught up in a high profile armed robbery, he’s sentenced to eighteen months in a young offenders prison. Now he’s getting out, and he’s determined to turn his life around. But despite his release, discrimination makes it difficult for Ty to truly be free. Inspired by a visiting poet while outside, Ty discovers a whole new world through spoken word poetry and is finally finding his voice. But will society ever see him as anything other than a criminal?

From the winner of the Jhalak Ya Prize, The YA Book Prize and The Diverse Book Award comes a life affirming story of rehabilitation and hope.

About Danielle Jawando

Danielle Jawando is an author and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel, And the Stars Were Burning Brightly, won best senior novel in the Great Reads Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize, the Branford Boase Award and was long-listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her previous publications include the non-fiction children’s book Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives), as well as several short plays per-formed in Manchester and London. Danielle has also worked on Coronation Street as a storyline writer. Her second novel, When Our Worlds Collided, won the 2023 Jha-lak Children’s and YA Prize, the YA Book Prize and the 2023 Diverse Book Awards. Her third YA novel, If My Words Had Wings, was published in May this year.