TWO best-selling authors are coming to Cleckheaton.

Kate Long and Ann Cleeves will visit the library on Whitcliffe Road within the next two months.

Tickets are still available to see both writers.

Kate Long will be first to visit, at 7.30pm next Thursday.

She will talk about her new novel, The Daughter Game.

Her first novel, The Bad Mother’s Handbook, was a big success and was made into a recent TV show of the same name, starring comedian Catherine Tate.

It was publisher Picador’s leading fiction title for 2004 and became a number one best-seller.

Kate has visited Cleckheaton Library twice before.

The Daughter Game tells the story of Anna, a teacher whose personal life is in crisis with a failing marriage and complicated affair.

Ann Cleeves will shift the focus from affairs of the heart to crime when she visits on Wednesday, April 23.

Ann, who formerly lived in Shelley, is an award-winning crime writer.

She won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2006 – the biggest prize in crime fiction – for her novel Raven Black.

The novel is set in Shetland, a place that inspires much of Ann’s work and where she lived for a time while her husband worked at a bird observatory.

In Cleckheaton she will be talking about Shetland and her new novel, White Lights.

Tickets for both events cost £2 and can be booked by calling the library on 01274 335170.