author talk: City Of Ruins by S. E. Lister

Thu Jul 22 2021 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

October Books | Southampton

October Books
Publisher/HostOctober Books
author talk: City Of Ruins by S. E. Lister
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rescheduled date: Thursday 22nd July
in the shop - 7pm - free entry - author talk
Please register via Eventbrite if you wish to attend so we can manage social distancing on the shop floor. Please note this is a rescheduled date - all original tickets remain valid.
Join S. E. Lister in the shop to hear all about her thrilling feat of literary imagination - ‘City Of Ruins’
A tremor shakes the ancient city. Fear grips the people as omens multiply. Yet nightly feasting continues at the Palace, and at the Temple the gods’ favour is bought as it always has been – with gold and sacrifices. Only the Augur, a fearless, ageless prophetess, can see what’s coming. Around her an unlikely resistance gathers: Saba and Aemilia, her two young acolytes, stolen from distant homelands; Myloxenes, fleeing his savage father; and pain-wracked Antonus, raising a family far from the depravity of the Palace he once called home. City Of Ruins is a tour-de-force of imagination and literary craft from a young author whose star is rising. The setting is ancient, yet its conflicts, fears – and its hopes – are our own.
S. E. Lister grew up in Gloucestershire, and studied Creative Writing at Warwick Uni. She has been reading stories since she was old enough to pick up a book, and writing them almost as long. Her first novel, Hideous Creatures, was shortlisted for the Edinburgh Festival First Book Award.
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October Books, 189 Portswood Road, Southampton, United Kingdom

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