Win Two Tickets to Meet Katherine Rundell in York This Summer

Bookworms have we got the competition for you…
We’ve teamed up with Bloomsbury Publishing and Waterstones to offer one lucky Living North reader the chance to see Katherine Rundell, the bestselling and award-winning author of the global phenomenon Impossible Creatures, in York.

Katherine Rundell will be in York on Wednesday 17th September (at Tempest Anderson Hall on Museum Street), for a special event to celebrate the publication of her much anticipated second book in the Impossible Creatures series – The Poisoned King.
Return to the Archipelago – the secret place in our world where all the creatures of myth still live and thrive, for a rescue mission like no other. When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago. But he didn’t know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...
Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, and in 2024 Katherine was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.
For your chance to win two tickets to An Evening with Katherine Rundell at Tempest Anderson Hall, simply enter our competition below.
Enter by post
Send your name and contact details on a postcard to Living North, Studio 2, St Nicholas Chare, Newcastle NE1 1RJ. Mark your entries, Katherine Rundell.
Enter online
Simply log in and enter using the online form linked to this competition, see below.
All entries to be received by 2nd September 2025.
Terms and Conditions
One entrant will win two tickets to An Evening with Katherine Rundell at Tempest Anderson Hall in York on Wednesday 17th September at 6.30pm. The prize must be used by the winner only. Entrants must be UK-based and aged 18 or over. The tickets are non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash or an alternative event.