Was the greatest ever love story a lie? Can the Arthurian myth be bust?

Hungerford Bookshop continues its author events on Thursday, September 7 at Hungerford Hub with a fascinating conversation between two authors who have re-told two of our greatest stories.

Victoria Gosling and Natasha Solomons: Two Riveting Retellings features the two authors talking about their retelling of classic works.

In Fair Rosaline Natasha Solomons, the author of the celebrated I, Mona Lisa turns her attention to Juliet Capulet's headstrong cousin Rosaline in this inspired 'untelling' of Shakespeare's most famous couple.

Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life. Soon though, Rosaline begins to doubt all that Romeo has told her.

She breaks off the match, only for Romeo's gaze to turn towards her cousin, 13-year-old Juliet. Gradually Rosaline realises that it is not only Juliet's reputation at stake, but her life. With only hours remaining before she will be banished behind the nunnery walls, will Rosaline save Juliet from her Romeo? Or can this story only ever end one way?

A subversive, powerful untelling of Shakespeare's best-known tale, narrated by a fierce, forgotten voice: this is Rosaline's story.

In Bliss and Blunder, Victoria Gosling re-tells Britain's most famous myth.

Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of Britain's most successful tech company, stables full of horses, millions of followers on Instagram, an unstable lover, a wayward son, a hoard of secrets, an aching heart, and a cyberstalking blackmailer who calls himself The Invisible Knight.

As the Wiltshire town of Abury prepares to celebrate the 40th birthday of its favourite son, Morgan, Gwen's former best friend, is on her way back to Abury after two decades away, keen to expose Abury's long buried secrets and hellbent on revenge. An inventive, magisterial reworking of Britain's greatest myth, Bliss & Blunder is a heartrending novel of power, friendship and betrayal.

The event starts at 7pm. Tickets £6 with money off the books on the evening and a glass of wine.