This year’s annual Hiscox Debut Authors slot which has welcomed authors in the early part of their careers including Bernardine Evaristo, Stacey Halls, Barney Norris and Claire Fulleron will champion the emerging talent of Ayanna Banwo and Bobby Palmer, talking about their debut novels, ‘When We Were Birds’ and ‘Isaac and the Egg’ respectively. Palmer’s ‘Isaac and the Egg’ is, according to novelist Patrick Gale, “a mad, sad, funny debut” in which a young man walks into the woods on the worst morning of his life and discovers something that will change everything for ever. While love looms large in Lloyd Banwo’s ‘When We Were Birds’, the novel is also a ghost story: the two central characters are a gravedigger and a woman who, so her grandmother tells her, has been transformed from a crow to escort the dead into the afterlife. Book tickets here