Join us when two excellent writers, Orla Owen and Lara Pawson, converse about their fascinating and brilliantly written novels, SPENT LIGHT and CHRIST ON A BIKE.Thursday 11th April, 7.30pm, tickets £5 (includes a drink). There will be a book signing and a chance to chat with the authors too.

CHRIST ON A BIKE by Orla Owen

Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached. Three simple rules that must be followed. As she settles into her new life, she begins to feel trapped: the past is ever-present. She convinces herself that the villagers are watching her and, desperate to control her own future, she tries to break free…

‘Black Mirror meets Tales of The Unexpected with shades of Shirley Jackson.’ – Nina Pottell – Prima Magazine.

SPENT LIGHT by Lara Pawson

A woman contemplates her hand-me-down toaster and suddenly the whole world erupts into her kitchen, in all its brutality and loveliness: global networks of resource extraction and forced labour, technologies of industrial murder, histories of genocide, alongside traditions of craft, the pleasures of convenience and dexterity, the giving and receiving of affection and care.

“Everything in this damned world calls for indignation,” the woman says at one point. All of it’s there, all interconnected, and she can’t stop looking. The likeness between a pepper mill and a hand grenade, for example, or the scarcely hidden violence of an egg timer. What if objects knew their own histories? What if we could allow ourselves to see those weird resonances, echoes, loops, glitches, as Pawson does so beautifully and unnervingly in her writing.