About this Event
Naledi Mashishi
Naledi Mashishi is an author, and masters student based in London, UK. She holds journalism degrees from Rhodes University and the University of the Witwatersrand. She has previously worked as a fact-checking researcher for Africa Check. In 2019 she was the recipient of the Casa Lorde Writer’s Residency hosted by Blackbird Books and Eunice Ngogodo Own Voices Initiative.
Invisible Strings
A SPOILED AND SELF-ABSORBED MAMOKGETHI PULE’S LIFE IS BROUGHT TO AN ABRUPT HALT BY AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY.
As her daughter Thato grows, she begins to develop otherworldly powers ranging from visions, to seeing the dead, to healing by touch. A young pastor, Solomon Khumalo, is desperate to prove himself by preaching the word of God to a large and loyal congregation. When he discovers Thato’s powers, he makes Mamokgethi a tempting offer: in exchange for money, he would pass off Thato’s healing powers as his own.
As the pastor’s popularity and thirst for power grows, Thato finds herself increasingly haunted by the past. The Ripples of a family tragedy that happened in the family 30 years ago, creates a burden on her young shoulders as she tries to solve it. The Invisible Strings is a story about the past bleeding into the present, the living and the dead, and the scourge of charismatic pastors.
Nikki Marmery
In a former life, Nikki worked as a financial journalist. She now writes fiction from a small village near Amersham, where she lives with her husband and three children. Her first novel, On Wilder Seas, was shortlisted for the Historical Novel Society’s New Novel Award and selected for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation’s #AdventureSociety book club. Nikki's highly-anticipated novel LILITH is coming out in October and was selected as one of STYLIST’S Best New Feminist Retellings to Read in 2023.
Tickets are £3 entry, £10 entry + a copy of the book.
Doors 7pm
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Morocco Bound Bookshop, 1a Morocco Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 3.00 to GBP 10.00
