Matthew Skelton brings his critically acclaimed debut novel Endymion Spring to WordFest. Set in present-day Oxford and in Germany at the dawn of printing, Endymion Spring is about a legendary book that holds the secret to a world of knowledge and that sets two boys’ worlds alight, bringing them unimaginable danger, excitement and power. While writing the novel, Skelton lived out of a suitcase in a borrowed room on £12 a week, with nothing to his name but his PhD from Oxford. Skelton was born in the UK, but at the age of four he moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he spent most of his childhood.