Join TJ Klune at St Swithin’s Church in Bath, hosted by Topping and Company Booksellers, on 27th October 2025 as he discusses ‘Somewhere Beyond the Sea’, the bestselling sequel to his beloved novel, ‘The House in the Cerulean Sea’.

Arthur Parnassus has built a good life on the ashes of a bad one. He’s headmaster at an orphanage for magical children, on a peculiar island, assisted by love-of-his-life Linus Baker. And together, they’ll do anything to protect their extraordinary and powerful charges.

However, when Arthur is forced to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself fighting for those under his care. It’s also a fight for the better future that all magical people deserve. Then when a new magical child joins their island home, Arthur knows they’ve reached breaking point. The child finds power in calling himself a monster, a name Arthur has tried so hard to banish to protect his children. Challenged from within and without, their volatile family might grow stronger. Or everything Arthur loves could fall apart.

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St Swithin's Church, 37 The Paragon, Bath, Somerset BA1 5LY