Join us to celebrate the publication of The Leap Cycle tetralogy of middle grade novels by Patience Agbabi, with a special-guest appearance from Ellah Wakatama OBE, Editor-at-Large at publisher Canongate.   

Hear Patience read from her books and be in conversation with Ellah and put your questions to her at this lively online event.  We are particularly delighted to be marking the publication of the fourth and last novel of the series, The Past Master, which was published in February.

With time travel, friendship, and the fate of the world at stake, these adventurous books following neurodivergent time-traveller Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè have won multiple awards and found a special place on countless children’s bookshelves.  All four books are available from Canongate here 

The host will be Melanie Abrahams, literature curator and founder of Renaissance One.  This event is produced by Renaissance One in association with Canongate Books and is developed through funding by Arts Council England.

Praise for The Leap Cycle Series

‘A fascinating, original and smart adventure tale with a rhythmic prose style that leaps off the page into scintillating life. It has a magic all of its own' (on book one The Infinite)
BERNARDINE EVARISTO OBE

‘Exactly as brilliant as I thought it would be. An exciting, bold, witty and magical book' (on The Infinite)
KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of Impossible Creatures

‘An adventurous, thoughtful sequel to The Infinite with great characters and an excellent Samuel Johnson appearance’ (on book two The Time Thief)
ELLE McNICOLL, author of A Kind of Spark

‘An adventure so thrilling it makes time fly!’ (on The Time Thief)
BEN MILLER, author of The Boy Who Made The World Disappear

About Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi FRSL is a poet and a novelist for middle grade audiences. Her poems and writing are studied in schools and universities and she tours internationally. In the last four years, Patience has turned her talents to writing a tetralogy for children aged 8 to ∞. The Leap Cycle is a thrilling time-travel adventure series and the debut novel, The Infinite (Canongate, 2020), was a CBBC Book of the Month and won the Wales Book of the Year: Children & Young People Award, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Scottish Teenage Book Prize and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award.