Nicholas Jubber

In this immersive talk, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber combines history, mythology and storytelling to take us on a global tour through the history of monsters – and in the process shows the human story too. From the Bavarian dragon to the werewolf of Louisiana, the vampire of the Balkans and the modern monsters pioneered by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this will be an action-packed journey through monster tales, showing how these stories can illuminate our own troubles and our collective histories, as well as connecting us with communities around the world.

Nicholas Jubber is the author of six books of non-fiction and a winner of the Stanford/Dolman Travel Book Award. He has spoken at many literary festivals, including Hay-on-Wye, Edinburgh and Cheltenham, as well as writing for The Guardian, BBC Online and The Irish Times.