Cardiff BookTalk

📚Next is The Power and the Glory by 🗺️ 17 Nov 🗓️

With fresh takes from our experts Yuliya Kazanova, Martyn Sampson, Jon Wise.

Join us for another sparkling evening online from the comfort of home, absolutely free.
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📚 TOMORROW NIGHT 📚

Opening our fabulous new series in a joint initiative with Amnesty Cardiff 🗺️

Former BBC foreign correspondent Emma-Jane Kirby talks about her moving novel The Optician of Lampedusa & the migrant crisis With Tom Davies, Campaign Manager at Amnesty UK.

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Join us for our season finale on 2 June, focused on Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse! 📖💬🤓

Link to free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-booktalk-virginia-woolf-registration-125439566119?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

📚 One day until our on !

Lively discussions with our fabulous panel including former colleagues 💟

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Tomorrow night is our Hilary Mantel event, focusing on The Light and The Mirror.

‘This book has been the greatest challenge of my writing life, and the most rewarding; I hope and trust my readers will find it has been worth the wait.’ - Hilary Mantel

The Mirror and the Light (2020) completed Hilary Mantel’s award-winning and hugely popular Cromwell Trilogy. The novel’s opening pages review the aftermath of the death of Anne Boleyn with striking intensity. But what is next for Thomas Cromwell, once a poor boy from Putney, then acting in service to the rich and powerful, and now continuing his climb to power and wealth? With a master like Henry VIII, nothing is certain. Our protagonist has frequently outwitted his adversaries – but there are enemies in the shadows, and with such a formidable, temperamental King, along with a regime under threat from problems abroad and at home, what will come next?

Our next event will take place on 12 May and will focus on Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light!

Link to free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-booktalk-hilary-mantel-registration-125345332263?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

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We hope to see you tomorrow night (21 April) for our Tyler Keevil event, focused on his latest novel Your Still Beating Heart.

ABOUT THE NOVEL: Eira’s husband has been murdered – a random stabbing on a London bus. Detached from her previous life, numb with grief, she impulsively books a ticket to Prague, the city where her husband proposed. Once there, a chance encounter leads to an offer of work. A job for someone like her: The good kind of traveller. Just head over the border, pick something up and drive back. That’s all. Just once. But both Eira and the dangerous gang who have employed her are about to discover who she really is and how far she is prepared to go.

Stylised and daring, Your Still Beating Heart is at once a scalpel-sharp thriller and a stark meditation on grief. Told in the second person, the narrative channels the dark, existential energy of Mohsin Hamid or Albert Camus and grips the reader from the first pages.

Link to free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-booktalk-tyler-keevil-registration-125344371389?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

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Cardiff BookTalk is delighted to invite you to our third author event of the 2020–21 semester – On 21 April, Tyler Keevil will be reading from and discussing his powerful new thriller Your Still Beating Heart.

Tyler Keevil is the author of several books, including The Drive (Myriad Editions), No Good Brother (HarperCollins), and the short story collection Burrard Inlet (Parthian). He has received numerous awards for his work, such as the Wales Book of the Year People’s Prize and the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. He grew up in Vancouver and moved to Wales in his twenties, and is now the Director of the Creative Writing MA at Cardiff University. Your Still Beating Heart is published in hardback and eBook by Myriad Editions.

Tyler will be discussing Your Still Beating Heart with writer and poet Claire Williamson who is a PhD student at Cardiff University. Cardiff BookTalk’s Colin Bond will be hosting audience questions and discussion after their conversation. Further recommended reading includes Tyler Keevil’s novels The Drive and No Good Brother and Claire Williamson’s Visiting the Minotaur.

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‪Mark your calendars! The next Cardiff BookTalk online event will be 21 April and will feature writer Tyler Keevil and his new novel, Your Still Beating Heart.

Free tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-booktalk-tyler-keevil-registration-125344371389?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

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A huge thanks to everyone who made Wednesday’s Ann Quin event a success, including our event chair, the speakers, the attendees, and the BookTalk team. Another fascinating event in the books! 📖💬🤓

Don’t forget that tomorrow night is our Ann Quin event!

To guide us in our discussion of Quinn’s Passages, Cardiff University’s Arwa F. Al-Mubaddel and Josh Powell will be joined by guest chair Nonia Williams from the University of East Anglia.

Arwa F. Al-Mubaddel is working on her PhD at Cardiff University and specializes in metamodernism and female subjectivity in British women‘s writing. Arwa will be presenting ‘Shapes Suiting [Her] Fancy’: Visual Narrative and Cinematic Vision in Ann Quin’s Passages.

Arwa will explore Passages by considering its fragmented structure and kinetic qualities and encouraging a reading of it as an experimental ‘visual text’. She will touch upon the paintings The Birth of Venus by early Rennaissance artist Sandro Botticelli and Eurydice No. 2 by painter and psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger, as well as Maya Deren’s experimental short film Meshes of the Afternoon.

Josh Powell is a lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University and has written extensively on Samuel Beckett and experimental psychology. His talk, Ann Quin's Passages and the Literature of Depersonalisation, will look at the text in relation to the psychiatric understanding of depersonalisation - an experience of unreality and detachment from one’s ‘mind’, ‘self’, ‘body’, or ‘surroundings’. Josh will be looking at the way that the diaristic approach to the text not only articulates experiences that would fall under the contemporary clinical definition of depersonalisation but also recalls the literary work that inspired this psychiatric term in the nineteenth century: Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal Intime.

Our guest host Nonia Williams is a lecturer in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her research interests include Modernist and experimental aesthetics, gender and sexuality, literature and madness, and the writing of Ann Quin, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

Link to free tickets here 📖💬🤓: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-booktalk-ann-quin-registration-125341587061?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Guest host Nonia Williams from the University of East Anglia will be leading our discussion of Ann Quin this week and has written about Quin’s work in an article titled 'About/of madness: Ann Quin’s The Unmapped Country for the journal Textual Practice.'

‘…the question is not only what madness might mean, but what it does.’ – Nonia Williams on Ann Quin Guest host Nonia Williams from the University of East Anglia will be leading our discussion of Ann Quin this week and has written about Quin’s work in an article entitled About/of madness: Ann Quin…