AUGUST MADNESS!!!

Plenty to look forward to in August.

Friday, 1st August - Tim Tzouliadis, author of The Forsaken. It is the untold story of the migration of idealistic Americans, keen to escape the Great Depression, to Stalinist Russia in the 1930s which ultimately resulted in their betrayal under the Communist regime.

Friday, 8th August- Bernadine Evaristo, author of Blonde Roots. Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute Doris is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage.Next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World.

Friday, 15th August- Peta Bainbridge, member of Brentwood Reader's Circle.

Friday, 22nd August- Nick Stone, author of Mr.Clarinet and about to be published Kind of Swords.When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card in the dead man's stomach - "The King of Swords".

Friday, 29th August- R.N.Morris, author of A Gentle Axe and A Vengeful Longing.

A Gentle Axe is about two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park - a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree. Police Detective Porfiry Petrovich begins his investigation in the city's squalid brothels and drinking dens but is soon led into an altogether more genteel stratum of society - and to a shocking discovery which reveals the darkest reserves of the Russian soul.
A Vengeful Longing is the sequel to R. N. Morris's highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe, once again featuring the brilliant detective Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in another gripping, atmospheric murder story.

Tune in every Friday from 7 to 8pm for all this and more.