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SUMMARY:The Great Deception
DESCRIPTION:Syd Moore\nThe Great Deception\nSaturday 27 June 2026\, 1.30pm\nHarlow Museum & Walled Gardens\, Muskham Road\, Harlow\, CM20 2LF\nJoin us in the enchanted Harlow Museum's Walled Garden and enter a world of mystery\, espionage and illusion with author Syd Moore as she discusses the second in her thrilling new series about Britain’s secret wartime history.\n\nThe Great Deception\, set in Iceland\, is the second in the thrilling WW2 series and explores deceiving occultists\, age-old magic and a war-torn world.\n\nJoin us at Harlow Museum & Walled Gardens for a day of storytelling\, author events and poetry.\n\nSyd Moore will also be leading a Writing the Archive Workshop at Harlow Museum earlier in the day.\n\nTickets: £10 / £8 concessions (students\, under 27s and unwaged)\nBox Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948\n\nPart of our Harlow weekend - Essex Book Festival is delighted to be heading to Harlow for a weekend of writing workshops\, author and artist talks\, family games\, and poetry. Find out more at essexbookfestival.org.uk/harlow-weekend/.\n\n\nEvent Information\n💬 The event will include an audience Q&A session.\n📚 Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the day.\n🖊️ After the event there will be an opportunity to get the book signed by the author.\n🪑 Seats are unallocated.\n📸 We will be filming and taking photos at this event.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSyd Moore\n\n\n[caption id="attachment_11427" align="alignnone" width="272"] Photo of Syd Moore © JMoore photos[/caption]\n\n\n\n\n\nSyd Moore has been a Royal Literary Fund fellow and is currently working with them to pioneer 'Reading Round' courses in hospices. Her novel The Witching Hour was a Top Twenty bestselling horror title of 2024. She was the first Author in Residence for Essex Libraries and is best known for her Essex Witch Museum Mysteries\, which was shortlisted for the Good Reader Holmes and Watson Award in 2018 and 2019. She has been shortlisted twice for a CWA dagger for her short stories. Syd founded the Essex Girls' Liberation Front and successfully removed the term ‘Essex girl’ from the Oxford dictionary in 2020. She lives in Essex.\n\n\n\nThe Great Deception\n\n\nEnter a world of mystery\, espionage and illusion.\n\nMay 1940. As the Nazis overrun Denmark\, Britain counters by invading Iceland. Secret agent Daphne Devine is dropped into occupied territory to assess a clairvoyant in Reykjavik\, who may be passing information to the enemy. Alone\, Daphne must navigate her way through this strange\, frozen landscape\, where the Allies aren’t always welcomed with open arms.\n\nWhen a new lead takes her North into Strandir\, the land of sorcerers\, she encounters fresh peril and discovers that now she\, the hunter\, has become the hunted. Daphne must use all her Secret Service training to outwit the enemy agents in her midst.\n\nTwice shortlisted for a CWA dagger\, Syd Moore returns with a thrilling new series\, exploring Britain’s secret wartime history.\n\nPraise for The Grand Illusion\n\n\n'Vivid and thoroughly entertaining... More\, please.'\n- Guardian\n\n\n‘A breathtaking historical thriller… Magical\, lyrical\, weird\, suspenseful\, dark and totally\, utterly original.’\n- Erin Kelly \, author of The Skeleton Key\n\n\nOrder a copy of the book from bookshop.org.\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:http://35.176.91.154/event/the-great-deception/
LOCATION:Muskham Road\, Harlow\, Essex\, CM20 2LF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fiction
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