Douglas Bruton introduces…Kenny Boyle, Claire Alexander, Adrian Keefe and Charlie Roy
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- Tickets
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£6.60 (£6 Ticket Charge Plus 10% Booking Fee)
- Dates and times
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7th May 2022
1:15PM - 2:15PM
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
Douglas Bruton, introduces our first panel of excellent debut
writers.
Douglas Bruton, who was recently longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for his novel Blue Postcards will be in the chair to introduce this varied panel of debut writers:
Kenny Boyle - The Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock
Fresh,
insightful and funny, as well as unflinchingly honest about the tougher side of
life, Kenny Boyle’s debut novel takes us deep into the psyche of a likeable
misfit who treads a fine line between reality and fantasy – and just wants the
world to see her true self.
Claire Alexander - Meredith, Alone
Meredith
Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't alone.
She has her
cat, Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support
group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favourite recipes, her beloved
Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous
memories for company.
But something's
about to change. Whether Meredith likes it or not, the world is coming to her
door . . . Does she have the courage to overcome what's been keeping her inside
all this time?
An autistic young man’s wretched, bullied existence is
transformed when he discovers a strange boarded-up house in the country and
gets to know its even stranger inhabitant.When lured off a planned walk by the
magical landscape, Spencer finds his ‘pot of gold’ in a boarded-up house with
its strange inhabitant, a young woman called Goldy. A strange angel, who wears
black and squats in derelict buildings, she becomes a guiding light in
Spencer’s lonely existence
Charlie Roy - The Broken Pane
The Broken Pane is about loss and
family when families are broken. Finding yourself in the pieces of memory.
About a young woman and her search for answers. Walking the line between
reliable memory and unreliable narrator, Charlie Roy’s debut novel invites you
to consider whether you are shaped by your past ― or if you shape your past
yourself?
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