We're looking forward to mini-touring these two new fiction titles (The Blue Tent, The Levels) next month! Do join us if you can.
Date 1: Thursday 17 October, 7.30pm, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Date 2: Friday 18 October, 5pm, Great Oak Bookshop, Llanidloes
About The Blue Tent by Richard Gwyn:
'A mysterious, dream-like story, delicately-written and with a disturbing undertow, The Blue Tent is in the best tradition of modern oneiric fiction' – Patrick McGuinness
In a lonely house deep in the Black Mountains of south Wales, a man spends insomniac nights absorbed in the ancient texts left him by his mysterious aunt. When a blue tent appears in the field at the end of his garden, his solitary life is turned inside out.
But who owns the tent?
And when the tent’s occupants emerge, whose story are they telling? As his life unravels, the man begins to question whether he is the orchestrator or the victim of his own experiences. Are the stories that guide or steer his life – any life – real, or merely the echo of other, possible lives?
About The Levels by Helen Pendry:
One day in winter a military drone on a training flight hurtles out of the sky and smashes into a holiday park. A young mother living in a static caravan is killed instantly.
While all the initial reports suggest a tragic accident, Abby Hughes suspects the crash was a deliberate act of sabotage by a homeless man who made maps and hated war. Determined to find the truth, she has to contend with the powerful forces trying to bury it.
