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DiscoveReads author event with Syd Moore
Suffolk Libraries at The Hold – Suffolk Archives Ipswich, Ipswich
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Dates & Times
Saturday 24 May 2025
12:45 - 15:00
Information - DiscoveReads author event with Syd Moore
Join us for our DiscoveReads Book Festival at The Hold in Ipswich with author Syd Moore!
Limited early bird tickets are available until Thursday 1st May for £3.00. General admission is £5.00 per ticket.
Syd Moore is best known for her Essex Witch Museum Mysteries which were shortlisted for the Good Reader Holmes and Watson Award 2018 Syd Moore has also written short stories – The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas (2019) and The Twelve Even Stranger Days of Christmas (2020) both of which were shortlisted for the ‘Dagger awards’ by the Crime Writers Association. The Grand Illusion, first in the new Section W series, was published in April 2024. The Great Deception, its sequel is published in September 2025.
DiscoveReads book: The Grand Illusion by Syd Moore
June 1940. As World War Two rages, Daphne Devine remains in London, performing each night as assistant to stage magician Jonty Trevelyan, aka the Grand Mystique. Then the secret service call. For, aware of Hitler’s belief in the occult, the war office has set up a hidden cohort to exploit this quirk in the enemy’s chain of command.
Daphne and Jonty find themselves far from the glitz and glamour of the theatre, deep inside the lower levels of Wormwood Scrubs prison. Here, they join secret ranks of occultists, surrealists, and other eccentrics co-opted to the war effort. There is one goal: to avert invasion on British shores.
Soon Daphne realises she must risk everything if there is any chance of saving her country.
