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Listen to professional actors perform short stories written by Chris Powers and Alex Reeves. Afterwards, Short Stories Aloud founder and host Sarah Franklin will be interviewing Chris and Alex about their new publications, ‘Mothers’ and ‘The House on Half Moon Street’, alongside taking questions from the audience.
Chris Power’s debut short stories collection ‘Mothers’ was published by Faber & Faber in February 2018. In ‘Mothers’ Chris Power’s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends – characters who search without knowing what they seek. A woman uses her mother’s old travel guide to navigate nowhere; a stand-up comic with writer’s block performs a fateful gig at a cocaine-fulled bachelor party; on holiday in Greece, a father must confront the limits to which he can keep his daughters safe.
From remote and wild Exmoor to ancient Swedish burial sites and hedonistic Mexican weddings, these stories lay bare the emotional and psychic damage of life, love and abandonment.
Alex Reeve’s debut novel ‘The House on Half Moon Street’ is the first in a series of books featuring Leo Stanhope, a Victorian transgender coroner’s assistant who must uncover a killer without risking his own future
Leo Stanhope. Avid chess player; assistant to a London coroner; in love with Maria; and hiding a very big secret.
For Leo was born Charlotte, the daughter of a respectable reverend. But knowing he was meant to be a man – despite the evidence of his body – and unable to cope with living a lie any longer, he fled his family home at just fifteen and has been living as Leo: his secret known to only a few trusted people. But then Maria is found dead and Leo is accused of her murder. Desperate to find her killer and under suspicion from all those around him, he stands to lose not just the woman he loves, but his freedom and, ultimately, his life.
Tickets for this event cost £5. Please note doors for this event open at 6.45pm, where there will be a bar offering range of alcoholic and soft drinks that can be purchased before the event. For all enquiries please contact [email protected] or call 01865 333623