BBC Radio 4's BookClub with Dorothy Koomson

To register your interest to book on for this event, please email bookclub@bbc.co.uk.

BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub is coming to our bookshop on Wednesday 18th June for a special, intimate event with the bestselling author Dorothy Koomson.

The book under discussion for this month’s recording will be The Ice Cream Girls, first published in 2010. It is a gripping thriller that examines two teenagers accused of murder. One was imprisoned, one was set free. Twenty years later, one of them is doing all she can to clear her name and the other is frantically trying to keep her secrets.

The programme is based on audience questions so if you are attending please think of one to ask Dorothy on the night.

It is recommended that the audience read The Ice Cream Girls prior to the evening. We have plenty of copies available from the bookshop in advance.

The recording will start at 18:30 and is free to attend. To register your interest to book on for this event, please email bookclub@bbc.co.uk. We ask that you aim to arrive at the bookshop by 18:15.

At only eighteen years of age, Poppy and Serena were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate and scrutiny, the two glamorous teens were dubbed 'The Ice Cream Girls' by the press and forced to go their separate ways and to lead very different lives. Twenty years later, Poppy is keen to set the record straight about what really happened, while married mother-of-two Serena wants no one in her present to find out about her past. But some secrets will not stay buried - and if theirs is revealed, their lives will start to unravel all over again ...Gripping, thought-provoking and heart-warming, The Ice Cream Girls will make you wonder if you can ever truly know the people you love.

DOROTHY KOOMSON is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist whose books have been translated into more than 30 languages, with sales that exceed 2 million copies in the UK alone. Her third novel, My Best Friend's Girl (2006) was selected for the Richard & Judy Summer Reads Book Club, while a TV adaptation based on The Ice Cream Girls was shown on ITV1 in 2013. Dorothy was featured on the 2021 Powerlist as one of the most influential Black people in Britain and appeared in GQ Style as a Black British trailblazer. She loves reading and writing, and is passionate about supporting other writers no matter what stage they are at in their career.