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Are adults turning into children, and children turning into adults? Whilst the 'key demographic' attempts to cope with its accelerated sexuality, their elders yearn for scooters and space hoopers. Speakers include Peter York, style and ad guru, columnist, author, and broadcaster; Andrew Calcutt, lecturer and author of Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood; Matt Thorne, whose novels include Tourist, and Eight Minutes Idle, Julie Myerson, critic, columnist, and author of Me And the Fat Man; and Melvin Burgess, author of prize-winning teenage novel, Junk, a book which was criticised by some as going beyond the bounds of suitable subject matter for children's fiction and whose latest book, aimed at young teenagers, Lady, My Life As A Bitch is proving as controversial.