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Kids Halloweeny Event: Colin the Vampire with HOLLY SWAIN

Date: 29th October, 2025
Location: The Steyning Bookshop

Don your cloaks and sharpen your fangs as we welcome talented author /illustrator HOLLY SWAIN to the bookshop for a fun Hallowe’eny kids event!
Holly Swain will be introducing her 2 hilarious picture books COLIN’S CASTLE and COLIN’S GRANDMA, starring Colin the Vegetarian Vampire (and his friend Duck)  There will be stories, drawing and a ‘Colin the Vampire’ – themed craft activity.
Also we’ll be giving out sweet treat rewards for anyone who dresses up – think CLOAKS, vampires, ghosts, monsters, witches and more!

Tickets
Child tickets are £4 – fully redeemable against the purchase of one of Holly’s books. Extra siblings are just £2. Accompanying adults do not need to pay!
Age guide: This event is suitable for children aged 3-8.
WEDNESDAY 29th OCTOBER at 11am at the STEYNING BOOKSHOP

Tickets Available via link below or direct from the bookshop

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ABOUT HOLLY SWAIN
Holly Swain is a children’s book illustrator, living in Hove with her husband Matt and their two daughters. As a kid she always loved to draw, making up characters and their worlds. She used to have a huge roll of paper under her bed that she constantly drew on which gradually got smaller and smaller, by which time she was big enough to go to college. She studied Illustration at UWE Bristol and then did an MA in Brighton. She is the author of Colin’s Castle and Colin’s Grandma, both published by Harper Farshore.