The Klaus Flugge Salon: Phil Earle – Writing Best Selling Fiction for Young People

An evening with best-selling, award-winning author Phil Earle, discussing his writing process and creating historical fiction with his editor Charlie Sheppard.

The Klaus Flugge salons are an initiative from Andersen Press to celebrate their founder and chairman Klaus Flugge’s 90th birthday year and welcome people to their new offices in Bloomsbury.

Following an incredible reception so far we are announcing our salon for June, with multiple-award-winner, and best-selling author Phil Earle, as he launches his latest historical novel for children aged 9+, The Dawn of Adonis.

These events are open to anyone from the public who wants to meet others in the publishing industry, enjoy a glass of wine and listen to an author or illustrator talking about their work. They are a celebration of all that is good about the world of children's publishing today and an opportunity to make new friends, learn about new books and discuss ideas without the toxicity of social media.

Limited to 30 tickets, the event costs £8 and ticket price includes a signed book by the featured creator and refreshments.

The June salon on Tuesday 17^th June will feature author Phil Earle talking about his new novel The Dawn of Adonis, the highly anticipated companion novel to the award-winning When the Sky Falls.

Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis

All are welcome, old friends and new.

Please contact us at AndersenPublicity@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk if you have any access requirements.

About The Dawn of Adonis by Phil Earle

‘I absolutely raced through The Dawn of Adonis! It’s a tremendous nail-biting read, tender and terrifying in equal measure. Both Toff and Nettie are fantastic characters, and little Adonis is the most endearing little creature ever’ - Jacqueline Wilson

‘Nobody writes striking, heartfelt adventure like Phil Earle. The Dawn of Adonis is a showcase of everything he does best: humour and peril and towering stakes all wrapped up in stark, spare, powerful prose. I loved it!’ - Ross Montgomery

‘Pacy, poetic, heartfelt and with a fantastically Dickensian authorial voice, this book deserves every rave review & prize shortlisting that’s sure to follow… a standing ovation for Phil Earle’ - Emma Carroll

A tale of loyalty, loss, betrayal, and rebirth.

It is 1911 and London’s docks thrum with underhand deals, none so great as the arrival of a valuable, rare and exotic animal, smuggled from the depths of the Congolese rainforest. The baby gorilla stands to make one man, the shady Goliath Deeds, very, very rich: he and his right-hand man, juvenile pickpocket, Toff Squabble. Heaven help anyone who dares stand in their way, not least the brave and innocent twelve-year-old Nettie Beecroft, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous rescue attempt where she encounters toshers, bone grubbers and gangsters.

Whom can Nettie trust? And can she save the life this very special creature?

About Phil Earle

Born and raised in the north of England, Phil Earle is the author of numerous acclaimed, award-winning books for children and teenagers. He has worked as a carer, a dramatherapist, a bookseller and a publisher, and loves talking at schools and festivals around the world. His novel When The Sky Falls won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award and the British Book Award for Children’s Fiction. He lives on the side of a very steep hill with his wife, their five children and two dogs.