About this Event
We're so pleased to welcome back award-winning author, A.K. Blakemore, to Maldon this October, for an evening discussion on her new book, 'Doom Painting,' with Samuel Fisher.
Both authors' books will be available to purchase at the event. The discussion will be followed by a book signing.
You can preorder your copy of Doom Painting with your ticket, or pick up a copy on the night.
The event will start at 7pm, and guests are welcome to arrive beforehand for drinks at The Blue Boar. Please note that this event will take place upstairs from the main bar area.
About Doom Painting
The sixteen days of the Peasant's Revolt, when new versions of England were born under the charismatic leader Wat Tyler, brought to life in a dazzlingly inventive novel by the author of The Manningtree Witches. It is 1381. England, reeling from plague and years of conflict abroad, is a tinderbox waiting to spark.
Two childhood friends ride into the town of Brentwood, Essex, where they come upon an altercation with a local Justice bent on squeezing more coin from the masses. Thus begins a rebellion of the common folk - loyal to the king, but not to those wealthy landowners who curtail their freedoms; the multitude finding cause against the powers that threaten their livelihoods. Set over sixteen days, Doom Painting roves across England as the revolt grows and swells and the rebels march to London to take their demands to the child-king Richard II.
Out of the rebellion emerges its enigmatic and charismatic leader Wat Tyler, an opportunistic and mercurial rogue whose morality is birthed by the cause, and who shapes an identity for the English which has never been lost.
About A.K. Blakemore
A.K. BLAKEMORE’s The Manningtree Witches won the Desmond Elliott Prize, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. Her second novel The Glutton was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry and has also translated the work of Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Poetry and the Poetry Review among other publications. She lives in Essex.
About Samuel Fisher
Samuel Fisher is a writer, bookseller and publisher. His debut novel, The Chameleon was recipient of a Betty Trask Award. His following novels Wivenhoe and Migraine were published by Corsair. He is the co-owner of Burley Fisher Books and a director of Peninsula Press.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Blue Boar, 3-7 Silver Street, Maldon, United Kingdom
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