Dangerous Debuts
Jewish Book Week
| Leon Craig | speaker |
|---|---|
| Sean Gilbert | speaker |
| Gemma Seltzer | chair |
Indulge your thrill-seeking senses in this meeting of two acclaimed debut novelists, who’ll discuss forbidden escapes, unspoken betrayals and murderous conspiracies.
Humour and horror find unexpected harmony in these two acclaimed debut novels, whose authors join Write & Shine founder and Ways of Living author Gemma Seltzer in conversation. In The Decadence, Leon Craig follows her short-story collection Parallel Hells with a tale of a forbidden lockdown escape to a decaying manor house, where old friends – and older betrayals – gather with unsettling consequences. Meanwhile, in journalist Sean Gilbert’s I’ll Be the Monster, a murderous couple jet off on a luxury holiday in a last-ditch bid to salvage their marriage, only to plunge into a sun-drenched, Mediterranean game of cat and mouse.
This event will last approximately 1 hour, with no interval.
Concessions & Under 30s tickets
Kings Place Concessions Tickets
We want to ensure that people who may be struggling financially to purchase a ticket can still enjoy visiting Kings Place. A limited number of tickets are allocated for certain events (if the ticket type does not show in the booking pathway, it means they are not available for this event or have all been sold). Concessions tickets are accessible for people on the following criteria (for more information visit our FAQs)
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit
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£10 ‘Under 30s’ tickets
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Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. For more information about the accessibility of Kings Place, including details about our Access Scheme, please visit this page.
If you would like to discuss your access requirements with a member of our team, please get in touch with the Box Office team at info@kingsplace.co.uk.
Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
Leon Craig
Leon Craig is a writer from North London. She studied English at UCL, Medieval Literature at Oxford and Creative Writing at Birkbeck. Her writing has been published by the White Review, the TLS, Another Gaze and the London Magazine, among others. Leon is a member of the LGBTQ+ Writing Collective the Future is Back.
Sean Gilbert
Sean Gilbert studied English at The University of Cambridge before pursuing the Creative Writing Master’s at UEA. He is a graduate of the Jewish Literary Foundation’s Genesis Emerging Writers Programme and the Penguin Write Now Emerging Writers programme. His non-fiction has appeared in Time Out, Metro, Theatre Full Stop and The Holborn, and his short fiction has appeared in Storgy, Short Fiction, and Litro. He lives in London.
Gemma Seltzer
Gemma Seltzer is a London-based writer and collaborates with authors, dancers, photographers and older adults on writing and storytelling projects. Her short fiction collection Ways of Living was published by Influx Press in 2021. It was a Foyles bookshop bestseller and selected for JW3’s Modern Jewish Literature series.