| Dear Readers,
We are very pleased to announce an event with another of the Granta Best Young British Novelists. Our event with Thomas Morris, also on this list, last month was fantastic and now we are delighted to be able to welcome Camilla Grudova to the shop to discuss her new short story collection The Coiled Serpent.
This is a brilliant opportunity to hear from the writer whom award-winning author, Nicola Barker, describes as “Angela Carter’s natural inheritor.” I read both of Grudova’s previous books, a novel and a short story collection, and enjoyed them immensely, so I am particularly looking forward to this one.
The talk will take place at 7pm on Monday 13th November
Tickets and more info are available here.
A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean’s teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexander, and Angelo are hypnotically enthralled by a book that promises them enlightenment if they keep their semen inside their bodies; Victoria is sent to a cursed hotel for ailing girls when her period mysteriously stops. In a damp, putrid spa, the exploitative drudgery of work sparks revolt; in a Margate museum, the new Director curates a venomous garden for public consumption.In Grudova’s unforgettably surreal style, these stories conjure a singular, startling strangeness that proves the deft skill of a writer at the top of her game.
“Camilla Grudova is Angela Carter’s natural inheritor. Her style is effortlessly spare and wonderfully seductive. Read her! Love her! She is sincerely strange – a glittering literary gem in a landscape awash with paste and glue and artificial settings.” Nicola Barker
“Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick – it has to be both memorable and fleeting.” Deborah Levy
“It’s easy to write what everybody else writes and that’s not what Camilla Grudova is doing. … We need work like this in the world.” Sinead Gleeson
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