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Mari Strachan David Whitley: Jenn Ashworth
– New Writer The Midnight Charter – New Writer
Oddfellows Chester Cathedral Oddfellows
1 pm 7 pm 1 pm
£5 £7.50 adults, accompanied children under 16 free £5 including tea and cakes
including tea & cakes (maximum 2 per adult)
Annie is morbidly obese, lonely and hopeful. A Kind of Intimacy
Young Gwenni Morgan is fond In this fabulously imagined new traces the dark possibilities of best intentions going awry and gives
of strawberry whip and asking world from debut talent David an unsettling glimpse into a clumsy young woman who has too
difficult questions. When a Whitley, anything can be bought much in common with the rest of us to be written off as a monster.
neighbour suddenly vanishes, and sold in the city of Agora.
she resolves to uncover the Even children are possessions
Jenn Ashworth is also one of Waterstone’s New Voices 2009.
circumstances behind his until their 12th birthday. Mark
As well as writing, Jenn works in a prison library, collects cacti, and
mysterious disappearance. has been sold by his father, and
admits that she tells lies and spies on the neighbours in Preston.
The Earth Hums in B Flat is an Lily, an orphan from birth, has
“A debut novel reveals a true gift for black comedy” The Guardian
enthralling portrayal of life in a bartered for her life. But they
small 1950s Welsh town on the are being watched by the ruler
brink of change. of Agora. Can they discover the
dark secret that binds them
Mari Strachan was chosen
together? What is The Midnight
as one of Waterstone’s New
Charter? This spellbinding
Voices 2009. She and her
adventure story will appeal to
husband divide their time
Philip Pullman fans.
between a smallholding in
Wales and a narrowboat David Whitley was the youngest
in London. person to win the Cheshire
Prize for Literature (in 2005).
“I loved this debut...Strachan
A recent graduate of Oxford
eschews whimsy for reality
University, David lives in
in a beautifully written story
Chester and is working on his
about growing up.”
second novel.
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