York Explore Library : Mon 20 Jun : 6.30pm – 7.30pm : Tickets cost £5 (£4 with a York Card)

Author Ali Shaw will be speaking about his new novel, The Trees, taking you into a world where nature truly does run wild. Ali has been shortlisted and won awards for his previous two novels and his latest book is definitely one to watch out for this year.

They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Everything is destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves.

Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland. He has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too.

Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah’s forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife – and to discover just how deep the forest really goes.

Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.

For more information about Ali w www.alishaw.co.uk f www.facebook.com/ali.shaw.351 t twitter.com/Ali_Shaw

Tickets can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.

There are a maximum of 60 tickets. For more information please call  York Explore Library (01904) 552828 (answerphone) or york@exploreyork.org.uk.