Scarlett Thomas: Award Winning Fiction Writer @ Southwold Literary Festival

Scarlett Thomas was born in London.

She is the author of highly acclaimed contemporary cult novels including "The End of Mr.

Y", which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; "Oligarchy"; "The Seed Collectors"; "PopCo"; "The Sleepwalkers"; and the Worldquake series of middle grade books.

Her novels have sold over half a million copies worldwide & been translated into 26 languages.

Scarlett is professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Kent.He's running for his life.

And he's running out of time.

On a sun-soaked Greek island, Jay is on the run.

He's been hunted since he was 20 years old: a contract on his life traded like a commodity, rising & falling with the price of Bitcoin.

Stranded with no passport, loyalty points as his only currency and an assassin in hot pursuit, Jay's only hope is to escape on a catamaran with a crew on their way to perform an exorcism on a dictator's private island.

When it becomes clear that his shipmates are even more dubious than they first seemed, Jay has to run again - this time into the arms of the beautiful Ellie, who is either his doom or his salvation.

Caught in a web of high-finance, con-artists, the Book of Jonah and ultramarathons, Jay will have to choose between love and survival & run for his life! Darkly funny, sexy, exciting, philosophical & enthralling, "The Runner" is an unmissable literary treat from Britain's most exciting novelist.Unreserved seating.