A WIRRAL bookshop will co-host an event with author Jodi Picoult.

Heswall’s Lingham’s Bookshop will work in collaboration with Booka Bookshop to host an event with the best-selling author at Chester Race Course The Pavilion Suite.

Jodi will be visiting the UK to tour for her new book ‘By Any Other Name’.

From the bestselling author of Mad Honey comes a sweeping and insightful novel of female identity and inequality set in both Elizabethan England and present-day Manhattan, as two women centuries apart struggle to assert their artistic expression in a sphere dominated by men.

The book is set in 1581 and tells the tale of Emilia Bassano who is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain’s mistress she has access to the theatre, and finds a way to bring her work to the stage secretly. And yet, creating some of the world’s greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at a great cost: by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history.

In modern day New York, playwright Melina Green is determined to see one of her shows make the stage. After years of struggle to be recognised she has finally written again, inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor — Emilia Bassano, England’s first published female poet. Although the challenges are different for her, four hundred years later, it is still not a level playing field for women in the arts. But what lengths will she be willing to go to in order to achieve her dreams?

Moving between Elizabethan England and modern day Manhattan, By Any Other Name is a beautifully written, compelling novel that explores the theme of identity and the ways in which two women, centuries apart—one of whom might just be the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are both forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.

The event will take place on Sunday, October 13 at The Pavillion Suite, Chester Racecourse and tickets cost £32.