Part of Prologue’s Opening Season, a curated programme of special events celebrating our first weeks in Stockport.

​Join one of the world’s most influential authors, E. L. James, the mind behind the ever-iconic Romance smash-hit Fifty Shades of Grey, for an exciting evening of tantalising stories.

​Heading to Prologue as a part of her first UK book tour in over a decade, the evening offers a rare opportunity to meet a leading voice in the romance genre, and one of Times magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’.

​We’ll be celebrating the release of her first-ever fantasy romance, Land of Ghosts.

​Every book + ticket comes with a copy of Land of Ghosts that E. L. James will sign and dedicate on the day.

​​About Land of Ghosts

​’E. L. James is a legend in her own time’ – Freida McFadden

​In a single, devastating moment, I lost everyone I loved.

​Now I’m in London, living with my sort-of-uncle Dylan. And the only thing we have in common is loss. This new life isn’t a life. It’s unbearable. Except––there’s someone else here. A young man. He can’t be real. Can he? He’s funny, cool, infuriating… and he understands me in a way no one else does. But only I can see him. Before I know it, he’s all I can think about. All I can dream about.

​Am I falling in love… with a ghost?

​From global phenomenon E. L. James, author of the record-breaking Fifty Shades of Grey series, comes an unforgettable new novel about love, loss and an impossible romance that defies even death itself.

​​About E. L. James

​After 25 years in TV, incurable romantic E. L. James decided to pursue a childhood ambition – writing stories. Her first published novel, the provocative Fifty Shades of Grey, smashed sales records worldwide, topping the New York Times bestseller list for 133 weeks. The book was coined the most iconic and addictive Romance series of all time.

​Together with its sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, and the companion trilogy Grey, Darker and Freed, it went on to sell more than 160 million copies in over 50 languages.

​One of Times magazine’s “Most Influential People of the Year” and Publisher’s Weekly’s “Person of the Year”, E. L.. James was a producer on all of the Fifty Shades movies, which together made more than a billion dollars at the box office.

​Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 and Fifty Shades of Grey was voted one of the 100 Great Reads by PBS’s The Great American Read in 2018. Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, and James’ romance, The Mister, once more topped bestseller charts around the world. She followed it up in 2023 with the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling sequel The Missus.

​E. L. James lives with her husband, the screenwriter and novelist Niall Leonard, and their two beloved dogs in leafy west London.