17:30 — Survival Show with Juno Dawson @ The Chapel

📍 Sunday 26th 17:30 - 18.30 at The Victoria Chapel

Juno Dawson — #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Clean, This Book Is Gay, and the beloved Her Majesty's Royal Coven trilogy — brings her most wickedly entertaining novel yet to SIBFest.

Survival Show is a sharp, darkly funny YA dystopia set in the New Alliance, a world rebuilt after war and flood, where teenager Taryn Beck enters Starmaker — the planet's most-watched reality TV competition — to win the money her sick brother desperately needs. The catch? Eliminated contestants aren't just sent home.

Part Hunger Games, part X Factor, part biting satire of fame, power, and the cult of girlhood, this is Dawson at her most gloriously unhinged — and we couldn't be more thrilled to have her in Sheffield.

About the book:

Tune in for Starmaker, the most watched reality TV show in the world. The rules are simple; young women from all over the globe compete to join an all-singing, all-dancing pop group. If you win, a life of luxury awaits . . . But there’s a catch. Eliminated contestants are literally eliminated. 
 
Taryn Beck and the contestants soon realise that reality TV is far from real. They are pitted against each other in cruel challenges and Taryn is determined to expose the brutal regime and destroy Starmaker from the inside.
 
Get ready for the performance of Taryn’s life.